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Originally Posted by Highwayman  How nice. Skaggs is concerned about taxpayer dollars. This might be refreshing from a Democrat but look what he said last August;
Does Skaggs have any idea about the price tag for this? Does he care? Apparently not. |
I am also opposed to allowing illegal immigrants to get the same tuition rates as in-state residents, but I'm not sure your budgetary projection here is accurate. A tax expenditure is different in kind than a governmental service discount. For all you and I know, having illegal immigrants put forward the money for in state tuition might be a net budgetary gain, as opposed to charging them out of state rates and having a large number not paying anything because the price tag got too high. So long as the cost to educate them is less than in-state tuition (which it usually is, AFAIK), then it should be a budgetary gain.
That being said, it was one off the few politically poor decisions that Sebelius made here in Kansas. The reasons have more to do with equity and fairness than budgetary concerns (unless we expand the discussion to providing other governmental services for people who reside here illegally).