Category — Harvard

Most Harvard liberals wouldn’t blink before agreeing to raise property or personal income taxes 2.5%. It’s for the children. It’s for the cops and firefighters. It’s for the environment. But the Charles River bastion of liberalism isn’t thrilled with a proposal that would tax its endowment 2.5%:

“You’d be taxing success here,” Kevin Casey, Harvard’s associate vice president for government, community and public affairs complained in a quote that will soon be framed and hung in my office. “Over time, this would put us at a real competitive disadvantage, which would drastically hurt the Commonwealth.”

Where has Mr. Casey been? Our “progressive” tax system has been punishing the successful for decades. The more you earn, the more you pay. The only difference between Harvard and us is the university didn’t earn its investment foundation. It was given to them.

You’d think Harvard liberals would want to pay their fair share. It’s for the children, don’t you know.

Liberals, none too appreciative of Geraldine Ferraro’s comments on Obama’s lack of qualifications, dusted off their poison pens and opened fire. That’s not surprising, but the opening line of this Harvard Crimson editorial writer’s column was amusing:

In an unsettling return to the Reagan Era-still the cause of some mourning in America-…

So I checked the Crimson’s web site to find out that James Maxwell Larkin graduates in ‘10. So, assuming that doesn’t mean 1910, Mr. Larkin most likely wasn’t even potty trained during the decade. Therefore, I’d suggest he leave commentary on the decade to people who lived through it and remember it instead of channeling his liberal professors’ angst.

By the way, we still don’t have any takers willing to defend Barack Obama’s qualifications. Millions of you voted for him, but not one of you can put a cogent, fact based qualification listing together to back it up. Things that make you go hmmm….