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We can only assume that Pittsburgh's Boy Mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, was imbibing a little too much of his city's heavily taxed liquor when he dreamed up a plan to assess a 1 percent privilege tax on college tuition.
In a story that nearly made us snarf up our morning coffee, the Post-Gazette reports (with what we presume to be a straight face) that the tax ''technically would not be a levy on the students or their schools, but rather on the privilege of getting a higher education in Pittsburgh.''
According to the newspaper, this whiz-bang idea to slap a tax on skyrocketing tuition is intended to plug a $15 million gap in the city's pension fund. A further $1 million would be used to underwrite the struggling Carnegie Library System.
So let's see if we've got this straight: Grown-ups bungle the management of pension funds, so they decide to stick their kids with the bills?
Outstanding.
-- John Micek
In a story that nearly made us snarf up our morning coffee, the Post-Gazette reports (with what we presume to be a straight face) that the tax ''technically would not be a levy on the students or their schools, but rather on the privilege of getting a higher education in Pittsburgh.''
According to the newspaper, this whiz-bang idea to slap a tax on skyrocketing tuition is intended to plug a $15 million gap in the city's pension fund. A further $1 million would be used to underwrite the struggling Carnegie Library System.
So let's see if we've got this straight: Grown-ups bungle the management of pension funds, so they decide to stick their kids with the bills?
Outstanding.
-- John Micek
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