<p>A friend forwarded this to me with a simple phrase on the message line: "Carnegie Mellon's probably going lower in my app list!"</p>
<p>Apparently, the mayor of Pittsburgh says a 1 percent tuition tax on students attending college in Pittsburgh will raise revenue needed to pay pensions for retired city workers.</p>
<p>Is he seriously expecting students to borrow money on top of all the money they already have to borrow to make ends meet in college to pay for the retirement of random strangers?</p>
<p>I know when the estimates are about $20 for community colleges to the highest, at Carnegie Mellon, $400. However, if a students stays for five years at a school like CM, this "little" tax would amount to 2k. This would most likely be buried within the student loans/interest a student may have! After four or five years of school, as a student, I would like to have the least amount of money owed multiplying. </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>