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Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl will propose a 1 percent tax on tuition at colleges and universities in the city as part of the city's operating budget.

[ENOUGH IS ENOUGH]

The solutions to cities rampant spending is tax everyone else and every thing. Way to go Mr. Mayor 1% doesnt sound like much but college students on a tight budget this is the difference between going to your schools or another. When will cities learn?

[John Galt]

Why not, just about everything else is taxed. /s

[Kyle]

When will all of you learn:
Government cannot give anything to anyone without first taking it away from someone else.

[ROLEX Guy]

luke doesnt know what he is doing. he needs to go back to managing his lemonade stand.

[Tijm]

Mr Mayor, tax you lawyer buddies first! Tired of you politicians/lawyers getting a free ride.

[Jim]

As the father of 2 college age students, this would definitly help make the decision that I would not have my child attend a University in this city. I just took my daughter to an open house for Art Institutes in Pittsburgh, I will be crossing this university off of my list.

[LadyeHawke]

Kyle wrote:

When will all of you learn:
Government cannot give anything to anyone without first taking it away from someone else.

Notice that the mayor waited until after the election to release the new budget. My oldest daughter and her family are glad that they're moving out of Pittsburgh... finally...moving out of Allegheny County to Washington County. They'll have more property, more house, and less taxes. Oh, and the school system is better.

[BeP]

My son will be going to college in fall of 2010.
Any school located within the city limits will not be considered if this bill goes through.

[huh]

Yeah, good luck with THAT one, buddy.

[Common Sense]

BeP wrote:

My son will be going to college in fall of 2010.
Any school located within the city limits will not be considered if this bill goes through.

My son is also starting college in the fall of 2010. We are definitely wiping Pittsburgh off the list. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is acting like a typical Democrat politician who has absolutely no idea how his decision will affect the economy of Pittsburgh. There is absolutely no need to even consider a college that taxes tuition when there are so many others to choose from.

[cut from obama cloth]

Everyone is trying to hold down college tuition to make college affordable not so some moron mayor can tax it! Tax tuition for kids trying to better their lives but pay millions just a few years back for a stadium to keep the minor league Pirates baseball team. Hmmm, brilliant, Mr. Mayor...

[out of towner]

Tax the owners of the Steelers - Pirates - Penguins, that is the folks that have the money! Tax the side that handles the selling of products that tout the above mentioned teams. Students don't have the money. You can't be serious!

[Clueless in Columbus]

LOL...can we imagine if coleman would suggest this?

shihh...lets not give him any ideas, although, osu would run him out of town!

[David]

This is about the dumbest idea presented by a politician yet (and there have been many!) After the 1% tuition tax is imposed, he better find out a way to offset the millions of dollars in lost revenues that will result from the lack of college students in Pittsburgh paying all the other taxes they pay for goods and services.(And this guy was recently reelected??)

[Big Hank]

Yeah, it doesn't cost enough these days to go to college or any other post-secondary institution. Kids coming out of college with the ability to start at maybe $30K/year, who already have the equivalent of a mortgage payment in monthly student loan bills... let's just add on to it. What an idiot the people of Pittsburgh have elected here.

[Eugene_C]

Good idea. They could use the taxes to support more education!

[Stop Them Now]

only tax ugly co-eds, so they leave. Don't tax the cute girl cheerleaders.

[Mill Hunkey]

Voluntary early retirement for Government employees was a good idea boss. Now put parking meters in front of everybody's house.

[Bill]

This is absolutely ridiculous!!!

[Eddie C]

Take, take, take. I say it's time for a real "change"...vote them out...all of them.