So what are right-wingers outraged about today?

fhl said:
When you have to start quoting salon, that's when we know you have hit rock bottom.
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Actually there are plenty of articles in conservative media quoting Michael Lind - most do it to demonstrate that inner city schools are failing.
 
fhl said:
The kind of company that would say they want to locate in a state that taxes and spends like a drunken sailor would be someone like apple or google. They would tell you that having those services makes the states more desirable and the states better places to locate.

Except they structure their own companies incomes to avoid a huge portion of those taxes by using offshore accounting tricks.
And the executives in the companies have their own pay structured so that it takes the form of long term capital gains instead of ordinary incomes. Almost all of them do it this way.

So in other words, they tell you that taxes and spending are great, but they do everything in their power to avoid paying it themselves. That should tell you everything you need to know about what they really think and their level of candor in their public remarks.
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Most of the companies leaving states that are "cutting taxes to the bone" are traditional U.S. manufacturers such as Boeing, Caterpillar, etc. not tech companies. Most leave because they find it impossible to attract or find employees in a state where community college and traditional university services are being cut to the bone.

Every single state that has cut taxes to the bone and underfunded services is finding it difficult to recruit or retain companies. All of these states are also seeing population growth rates slowing drastically (and usually declining).
 
Spike Trader said:
Another Republican Governor Proposes Big Cuts in Higher Education.


Add another state to the list of budgetary showdowns playing out between Republican governors and higher education.

First there was Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker proposed dealing with a $2-billion deficit by giving the public-university system more autonomy and, in exchange, cutting $300-million in state funding over two years. Then a close examination of Mr. Walker’s budget proposal showed his office wanted the popular “Wisconsin Idea” and its public-service emphasis stripped out of the system’s mission statement. He later dropped that part of the proposal, saying it was a result of “confusion.”

Second came Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal is expected to propose a $400-million cut in higher education to help close a $1.6-billion deficit (he is scheduled to formalize the proposal this month). Educators in Louisiana are wringing their hands over the possibility that it will be necessary to close campuses or lay off faculty members in response.

The chopping-block tour of 2015 made its third stop, in Illinois, on Wednesday, where Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed cutting a $1.5-billion deficit by slashing $387-million from higher education in the state, the Chicago Tribune reported. The proposal from Governor Rauner, who took office just last month, would amount to a cut of $209-million for the University of Illinois system, which did not respond warmly to the news.
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The GOP......the pro-ignorance party. Vote GOP and vote for the right to be dumb.
 
The left is trying to turn international finance into country to country welfare transfer payments. They want Germany to forgive Greece's past debts so Greece can borrow yet more money that they can't pay back.

It's redistribution and welfare masquerading as loans. The masquerading is essential to the process. Honesty wouldn't get the job done, like it wouldn't have gotten the votes to pass obamacare or the new 'hide the rules until after the legislation is passed' internet neutrality.
 
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