As if Harvard didn’t have enough problems, now there’s a bill in Congress that would put a real federal tax on those pampered pukes – a “graduated” tax, based on income.
You know, like the one they were all in favor of imposing on Massachusetts taxpayers. But now, when it might come down on top of them, it’s the end of the world.
Harvard, just pay your fair share.
It’s for the children.
Is it right that Harvard pays fewer taxes than a teacher or a firefighter?
Harvard’s motto is “Veritas,” but the “truth” is that the motto should be, “Taxes for thee but not for me.”
The proposal out of the House Ways and Means Committee would impose a graduated income tax on the so-called elite universities with the big money.
An economics professor from Wellesley College did a spreadsheet, which he gave to the Boston Globe, whose limousine liberals promptly fainted when they saw what Harvard’s first-year fair share of taxes would be:
$849 million.
You know I call that $849 million? A good start.
But what’s the big deal here? Harvard has an endowment of $53 billion. So that annual $849 million would be less than the 2 percent “wealth tax” that Comrade Bernie Sanders and the fake Indian have long suggested for “rich” Americans.
I mean, how much richer can you get than Harvard University? On top of that, they’re freeloading, except for an infinitesimal 1.4 percent federal tax on endowments (imposed in the first Trump administration), as well as “in lieu of payment taxes” to the cities of Boston and Cambridge.
By the way, just for the record, those are two cities I used to pay property taxes in. How come I had to pay property taxes, but Harvard, which needless to say owns a lot more real estate than I ever did, pays the doughnut.
And now the deadbeats at Harvard have the gall to cry poor mouth. The sob stories in state-run media about poor Harvard never end.
First they were going to lose a $500,000 federal grant – a half-million! – and thus they were going to have to put down a bunch of research monkeys in Pittsburgh.
Monkeys would be killed because Harvard couldn’t come up with $500,000 out of their $53 billion endowment? Seriously?
It was nothing but Harvard BS, “emotional blackmail,” as PETA pointed out.
“These monkeys and other animals were never going to leave the laboratories alive,”
PETA said.
A private group came up with the money to save Cheetah. But that didn’t stop regime-controlled media from putting out more pro-Harvard, anti-Trump agitprop.
Here was a later headline from The New York Times:
“Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research.”
In this case, it was beagles. Of course, back in the day the Times had no interest in reporting Dr. Anthony Fauci’s slaughter of thousands upon thousands of the lovable canines in foreign lands, because he’s one of their fellow travelers.
You want more Harvard-related tragedy? The alleged cuts by Trump are so deep that the president of Harvard University, Comrade Alan Garber, announced that he’s taking a temporary 25 percent pay cut.
Of course, we don’t know how much Comrade Garber was making, but probably around a million.
Did Harvard’s disgraced ex-president, DEI serial plagiarist and rabid anti-Semite Claudine Gay, take a cut in her $900,000 pay, which was never cut after she was fired last year?
Coulda saved a lot of monkeys and beagles with all that DEI dough, right?
Meanwhile, despite Harvard’s horrible year, I don’t notice much difference in the People’s Republic of Cambridge these last few weeks.
Here’s a headline from yesterday:
“Justice Department charges Russian Harvard researcher with smuggling biological samples into Boston.”
That Red spy, er, researcher, from Harvard is named Kseniia Petrova. Comrade Petrova is not to be confused with Comrade Charles Lieber, the former chairman of Harvard’s chemistry department.
He was convicted of lying to the feds about more than $1.5 million in secret payoffs he got from the Red Chinese in, of all places, Wuhan.
Comrade Lieber was just appointed as a professor in… Red China. I hear this time of year Wuhan is a lot like Cambridge, except there’s more free speech tolerated there.
Meanwhile, local politics in Cambridge hasn’t changed since Comrade Lieber fled AmeriKKKa, as they say at Harvard. This spring both a current Cambridge city councilor and a former councilor have both been arrested. Sex crimes and domestic abuse. You’re shocked, right?
So the Harvard cutbacks and freezes and layoffs continue, on an almost daily basis.
A few more heartwarming headlines:
“Trump administration cuts another $450 million in grants to Harvard, on top of $2.2. billion already frozen.”
“After funding cuts, Harvard may also lose ability to enroll foreign students.”
Oh no – does that mean illiterate masked Muslim welfare recipients , I mean exchange students, will no longer be randomly blocking Mass Ave and Memorial Drive during rush hour?
Of course, we are endlessly lectured, society will quickly crumble if Americans in pick-up trucks are no longer required to fund the pernicious lies and perverted lifestyles of trust-funded swells in limousines who despise all the rest of us:
“Researchers fear science will suffer.”
“Federal funding cuts ‘will make us less safe,’ say experts.”
Are these the same “experts” who say genital mutilation of children is a wonderful idea, or that racism is really “equity,” at least as long as it’s only qualified whites and Asians who are being denied admissions, promotions or any other equal rights formerly guaranteed by the Constitution?
And now Congress considers legislation to start taxing Harvard $849 million a year?
To paraphrase what Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green said to the millionaires of NPR and PBS, “You can keep hating us as much as you want, but not on our dime!”
And as a longtime taxpayer in both Cambridge and Boston, I have one final question:
When does Harvard start paying me reparations?