Common Sense: Taxpayer giveways
Is Governor Cuomo so focused on being the progressive movement’s candidate for president in 2020 that he is willing to put forward poorly thought-through proposals at New York taxpayers’ expense in order to create a left wing national following?
I place as exhibit A the governor’s proposal to make tuition free at all public colleges and universities in the state. Ironically, in college Economics 101, they tell you that there is no such thing as a free lunch. This proposal is far from free. It will cost New York taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars as well as undermine every private college in the state.
And to add insult to injury, the state’s TAP program already covers a significant part of the cost of a public college education (and for that matter a private college education) for all but those who are in a higher earning category. If you should be fortunate enough to be a member of one of those families, I would maintain that you can afford the more modest tuition that exists at a public institution of higher learning.