Trump Freezes $2B, Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status

@#1 ... "Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting "Sickness?" he wrote on Truth Social. ...

Now do the tax-exempt status of right-wing Christian Churches.

Should their pushing of a political agenda mean that they should lose the tax-exempt status for their Church and , e.g., the bowling alleys they build?

Futuristic church with 12-lane bowling alley, 7 giant domes and an observation tower opens its doors to the public (2014)
www.al.com

... The Bridge will satisfy the need for family entertainment in the western part of Birmingham, he said. "We believe we can really meet the needs of the community," Moore said. "It will bridge people from the world to the kingdom. People may not want to come to a church, but they'll come to a bowling alley. People have needs other than spiritual needs. There's a need for safe, clean, uplifting, family-oriented entertainment."

While it's been open for more than a year, the recreation complex of six interconnected domes known as The Bridge will have an open house on Saturday, July 12, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to unveil it to the broader community.

"Now we want the world to know," said Moore, who founded Faith Chapel in his home in 1981. "Our church wants to be an inspiration."

The roll-out of the bowling alley and other facilities to people beyond the church membership has been intentionally deliberate as the church tried to navigate the logistics of running such a massive recreational center. "We didn't have the staffing in place," Moore said. "We were trying to get to the point we can handle everyone who wants to come." ...

You apparently are a typical leftist who thinks average Americans should borrow to attend the neighborhood community college while approved foreign born tribsters of approved politics and ethnicity get admitted and aid to attend Harvard.

Not a dime of our tax money should subsidize and help non native born non Americans get a leg up on an Ivy League education. We need incentives to make Americans strive and better off not to make Harvard better off.

Your VP went to an Ivy League school ------.

@#11 ... Why must taxpayers fund private universities unless they get a return on investment? ...

Your AI bot alias seems to be saying that there's no return to society by Harvard.

List of Harvard University people
en.wikipedia.org

... Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College.

Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty. ...

The WikiPedia article then goes into details, citing each person, and how that person contributed to society.

It's a long, very long, list, and I don't want to take to time to transcribe the table format presented to this site's text-oriented format.

So I encourage to visit the site.

Probably why he wears eyeliner and humps couches.

@#14 ... You apparently are a typical leftist who thinks average Americans should borrow to attend the neighborhood community college while approved foreign born tribsters of approved politics and ethnicity get admitted and aid to attend Harvard. ...

Please provide the evidence, with links, to substantiate that assertion.

"Not a dime of our tax money should subsidize and help non native born non Americans get a leg up on an Ivy League education"

Why? Why don't you see any value in investing some small amount in our global neighbors?

Some of the most successful Americans are first or second generation emigrants.

They are what makes us great.

It's a good investment.

@#15 ... Your VP went to an Ivy League school ...

OpEd: The Populist GOP and its Yale Law and Harvard Law Leaders (July 2024)
reason.com

... The nomination of J.D. Vance as the Republican party's Vice-Presidential candidate in the upcoming election brings up an interesting contrast. On one hand, today's GOP embraces a heavy dose of populism. It's pretty standard for Republican politicians to rail against elites who are against the average Joe. On the other hand, if you look at the younger generation of GOP leaders, the politicians who are likely to lead the party in coming years, there sure are a lot of Harvard Law School and Yale Law School graduates.

J.D. Vance is one example. He's a graduate of Yale Law School, Class of 2013. But think of other possible future GOP Presidential candidates. There's Senator Joshua Hawley, Yale Law Class of 2006. And lots of Harvard Law grads are in the mix. We have Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Harvard Law Class of 2005 (sort of a crossover, as he went to Yale for college). And Senator Ted Cruz, Harvard Law Class of 1995, where he went after college at Princeton. And there's also Senator Tom Cotton, Harvard Law Class of 2002. I'm probably forgetting others.

It seems worth asking, how is it that the GOP has embraced both populism and a set of prominent figures, at least among the younger generation, who are Harvard Law and Yale Law graduates? Or maybe more specifically, why is it that going to an elite law school seems to be a significant advantage within the GOP? ...