{"id":2623,"date":"2008-05-19T07:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T07:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/19\/burying-the-lede-taxing-tuitio\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T07:50:20","slug":"burying-the-lede-taxing-tuitio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/19\/burying-the-lede-taxing-tuitio\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Lede: Taxing Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <cite>Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> they&#8217;ve got a piece titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/views\/2008\/05\/19\/miller\">Massachusetts Should Tax Harvard<\/a>&#8221; taking the position that most of the arguments against taxing extremely wealthy institutions of higher education are nonsense. You have to read all the way to the last paragraph to get to the one really interesting suggestion, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although I support taxing rich colleges, I believe there are better ways of doing it than through imposing a wealth tax on endowments. As Mankiw wrote to me, many economists believe it inefficient for governments to tax savings. I would prefer if Massachusetts imposed a sales tax on tuitions. Such a tax might appeal to politicians who don&#8217;t begrudge elite colleges their huge wealth but do feel the schools should spend more of their capital on students by, for example, charging low tuitions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A sales tax on tuition? What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>Presumably this means something more like the &#8220;luxury tax&#8221; in baseball, where high-tuition <strong>institutions<\/strong> pay a tuition-based tax, not like the normal sort of sales tax where families of students would need to pony up an extra percentage at payment time. It&#8217;d be really nice to have a little more detail on this. Or <strong>any<\/strong> detail, really.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, IHE&#8211; you can&#8217;t let him tease us like that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Inside Higher Ed they&#8217;ve got a piece titled &#8220;Massachusetts Should Tax Harvard&#8221; taking the position that most of the arguments against taxing extremely wealthy institutions of higher education are nonsense. You have to read all the way to the last paragraph to get to the one really interesting suggestion, though: Although I support&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/19\/burying-the-lede-taxing-tuitio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burying the Lede: Taxing Tuition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}