Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Ventura argues that state‑paid tuition now leads to higher taxes later, so students should oppose it.
In plain terms
Paying tuition now means higher taxes for everyone later.
What can you take from it?
Consider long‑term tax impacts of public tuition funding.

Where it applies

  • college budgeting
  • policy debate

Putting it to work

  • modeling tax forecasts
  • educating voters on fiscal trade‑offs

Questions to consider

  • Are there alternative funding models?
  • How do we balance access and cost?

Another view

The argument assumes tuition costs would otherwise be covered elsewhere.

More from Jesse Ventura

  1. The best chance disabled students have for productive adult lives comes from being mainstreamed among other students. My daughter Jade is living proof of that.…

    Permalink to quote #23
  2. Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as g…

    Permalink to quote #25
  3. There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per …

    Permalink to quote #22

Related quotes

  1. Private courier companies are fine to handle the lucrative parts of the [postal] business. But they have little interest in servicing remote communities, so th…

    Linda McQuaigLinda McQuaig quote #2
  2. Many of you are well enough off that: the tax cuts may have helped you: We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that sh…

    Hillary ClintonHillary Clinton quote #19
  3. If Karl Rove is watching today, Karl, I want you to hear me loud and clear: I am going to provide tax cuts to ease the burdens for 31 million American families…

    Wesley ClarkWesley Clark quote #19