around the idea that you actually have to have hold colleges accountable. they can t just keep raising tuition year after year. so what is in secretary clinton s plan is a provision that essentially says we re not going to give federal money and the federal student loan program towards amenities. towards your college reck center. instead it has to go towards learning. we ve heard rubio say the same thing. we ve hear republicans say we have to have price controls on colleges. the fact is colleges don t operate in a free market. many are guaranteed federal money. and as we know the business model is based on exclusion. a lot of them like to not admit students in order to enhance pres teeblg. so they are not operating like shoe store in a free market. instead we have to put price controls on tuition, caps or at least some teeth so that if they have terrible graduation rates and terrible student debt levels and default and delinquency
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we first got a tip from a tax guy going through sec filings. what bothered him the most was these endowments don t actually pay taxes on the profits that come from this. for a tax person, that really chafes them, when they see someone making compare profits and not paying taxes. when i saw it, i thought, well, that s okay. that sucks. wow, this is also a pretty interest interesting so universities and teachers pension funds, the people making some of the most profit off of soaring tuition and soaring student debt. it adds up to this conflict of interest where the higher than they can raise student debt levels the more their investments become worth. one of the things that emerges in the piece so interesting is just the role sallie mae is playing now, the fact i didn t quite understand the degree to which it has this
financial and regulatory correspondent. excellent reporting. great work. what led you to dig in to this? we first got a tip from a tax guy going through sec filings. what bothered him the most is these endowments don t actually pay taxes on the profits that come from this. for a tax person, that really chafes them. when they see someone making extraordinary profits and then not paying taxes. i thought, well, that s that sucks but wow, this is also a pretty interesting. so universities and teachers pension fund are the people making some of the most profits off of soaring tuition and soaring student debt. it adds up to this conflict of interest where the higher they can raise student debt levels the more their investments are sglort one thing that emerges in
jahim, huffing post correspondent. great work. what led you to dig into this? we first got a tip from a tax guy going through sec filings. what bothered him the most was these endowments don t actually pay taxes on the profits that come from this. for a tax person, that really chafes them, when they see someone making compare profits and not paying taxes. when i saw it, i thought, well, that s okay. that sucks. wow, this is also a pretty intere interesting so universities and teachers pension funds, the people making some of the most profit off of soaring tuition and soaring student debt. it adds up to this conflict of interest where the higher than they can raise student debt levels the more their investments become worth. one of the things that emerges in the piece so interest interesting is just the role