More state democrat legislative idiocy - giving the crack addicts the keys to the drug store: Allowing universities to have tuition setting authority.

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Yeah, the morons running our government are eager to see tuition double or triple at schools that have long since forgotten their number one purpose: the education of the children of THIS state, so they've decided to give schools... which have already raised tuition as much as 40% plus over the past 3 years the ability to extort even more money to attend their ivy-covered halls.... the ability to set tuition unlimited amounts over the next 4 years.

The UW, one of my alma maters, has already cut in-state student levels 150 in the next class, instead recruiting out of state students in an effort to make up for the millions lost in tuition by giving illegal aliens the in-state tuition rate.

To that end, the analogy of handing over the ability to rape the taxpayers, students and parents of this state is typical of the fringe-left who seem to believe that we can crank genuine currency out of our color laser printers to pay the horrific salaries of the 10 hour-per-week professors as opposed to forcing those schools to rein in their spending... like the rest of us have.

Inflation hasn't come close to 40% over the past 3 years, and it won't even be in the same solar system with what these people are going to do now... I can't begin to imagine how much the UW is going to jack up tuition... like I can't imagine why they're wasting $250 million on the stadium (which I will never set foot in again after this season) when we have a perfectly good, already built public stadium just down the street.

It's just a shame that rank stupidity is part and parcel of being a democrat.  Because if it wasn't, these clowns wouldn't be doing this.

Lawmakers OK deal to let universities set tuition rates

Lawmakers say they've come to an agreement in principle on a higher-education bill that would give the state's five public universities and The Evergreen State College authority to set in-state undergraduate tuition for the next four years.

By Katherine Long

Seattle Times higher education reporter

Lawmakers say they've come to an agreement in principle on a higher-education bill that would give the state's five public universities and The Evergreen State College authority to set in-state undergraduate tuition for the next four years.

The legislation would help four-year schools make up some of the steep cuts being proposed in higher-education funding. It also would provide some financial aid for middle-class students to help them cover the higher tuition costs.

Washington is one of the few states in the country in which the Legislature sets tuition. Previous attempts to give schools tuition-setting authority have failed in past legislative sessions.

"In terms of the broad principles of what's in the bill, we had ... as of yesterday an agreement in principle," Sen. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, who has been involved in the tuition negotiations, said Friday.

State Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Bellevue, chairman of the Senate's Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee, confirmed that lawmakers had a deal for the higher-ed bill.

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