We Could Pay For College For 31 Million Students For The Cost Of Romney’s Corporate Tax Cuts

Well, who needs a college education when Wal-Mart needs a tax cut?

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The policies politicians propose and enact represent both priorities and trade-offs. So when Mitt Romney proposes cutting corporate taxes at the cost of $1 trillion over the next ten years, he’s telling us that it’s more important for him to reduce the tax rates paid by Big Business than to have that trillion dollars in the Treasury to fund public priorities.

Here’s one of those priorities. Using data from the National Priorities Project (NPP), I calculated what else we could finance with a trillion dollars. I found that we could fund four-year scholarships for 31million students over the next ten years instead. Each student could go to a “flagship” state school for one year and have their tuition and fees fully subsidized.

Here’s a few other things we could finance for a trillion dollars instead of tax cuts for well-off corporations:

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/we-could-give-scholarships-to-125-million-students-for-the-cost-of-romneys-1-trillion-corporate-tax-cut/