Quote:Excellent points and if the new NBA t.v. deal is as big as expected then the direct tax revenue will be even greater and we're not even talking about secondary impact. Also, The Bucks can decide to leave the state, UW can't.



This is the problem with the left when having these discussions. We're talking about a 2% cut to a budget over two years. Who here at one point or another hasn't had to deal with a 2% cut to their budget?


Think about this the entire state government of Wisconsin spends an average of 8k per citizen in the state and that's for all state services schools, police, etc. etc. the University of Wisconsin spensds 33k per student on campus... That's just the universities budget. Let alone the cost of books housing etc. etc. now you're looking at real cost (not just tuition) of a 4 year degree ranging from 120k to 150k and half the kids graduating can't get jobs. That's unsustainable! I mean think about it, they have a sports team in the second and fourth most popular sports in the richest country in the world, they don't pay the players, they keep all the revenue and they still need a billion dollars from the state to keep their doors open.


The first derivative of x^2 is 2x the second derivative is 2 the third derivative is 0. It can't cost us 33k as a society for a freshman to learn that.


Anyone with common sense would say that this is excessive spending, but you put the words higher education in front of it and some people loose all objectivity.