Elitist Democrats Want Billions More Tax Money For Harvard
By John J. Duncan Jr.
Everyone should now feel sorry for Harvard (wink-wink). At least the elitist Democrats and their allies in the national media seem to think so.
They have been blasting the Trump administration for withholding about $2.2 billion in federal funds scheduled to go to Harvard. After all, the college has only $53 billion in its endowment, and usually makes only about 5 to 5.5 percent on that money each year.
Then, of course, Harvard in 2024 took in only $528 million in “current use gifts” and surpassed only a little over one billion in total fundraising for the year.
So, Harvard filed suit against the administration to make sure it gets the $2.2 billion from the taxpayers, much of which comes from low- and middle-income people.
Even people who don’t pay much in federal income taxes pay all kinds of other taxes. For instance, everyone who drives pays 18.4 cents a gallon on a federal gas tax. Truckers pay a fuel surcharge that is 46 cents a mile for independent truckers, and varying amounts for large corporations.
Businesses have to pass their taxes on to consumers on everything that is produced, delivered or sold in this country. Many state and local taxes are higher because of federal mandates, and all taxes – federal, state, and local – obviously hit poor and lower-income people the hardest.
Unfortunately, most major universities have become leftist brainwashing factories. Several years ago, the Washington Post reported that only five percent of college professors were conservative.
In 2012, George Will wrote a column for the Post entitled “Colleges have free speech on the run.” He quoted Greg Lukianoff, president of The Foundation for Individual Rights, a liberal: “Those with the highest levels of education have the lowest exposure to people with conflicting points of view.” This encourages “the human tendency to live within our own echo chambers.”
George Will and many others have said that there is less free speech on college and university campuses than anyplace else in the U.S. Law Professor Jonathan Turley said one of his colleagues was leading a movement to amend the First Amendment and quoted her as saying, it is “aggressively individualistic and needs to be curtailed.”
People like to be around people like themselves, and liberal professors almost always hire other liberals. Many retiring or defeated liberal or left-wing public officials become college professors. This never happens to former conservative Republican officials, unless they are ones who have attacked their party, and/or more importantly, have attacked President Trump.
Harvard hired former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, who had been called “America’s worst Mayor”, after she ran a poor third in the Democratic Primary when she ran for re-election. Harvard also hired former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio after his left-wing race for president got less than one percent of the vote.
The latest example is Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, who now teaches at Harvard.
Because elitist liberals don’t like things like freedom and choices for others, they love to have power and control and run the lives of everybody else. Thus, the blue state mayors and governors were the quickest to impose draconian restrictions during the Covid fraud.
Ms. Ardern became a hero to the Left when she imposed the most severe restrictions in New Zealand. Now, she claims, without evidence, that this saved 80,000 lives. But she became so unpopular in New Zealand that she had to resign in 2023 before her party was destroyed at the polls.
The power-mad Ms. Ardern has written a new book about her time in office. Wikipedia says: “Ardern, who has been living in the United States for the past two years, chose not to tour in or near New Zealand to promote her memoir, where public sentiment toward her remains negative.”
If Harvard were to receive the $2.2 billion from taxpayers this year, I wonder how many billions they have taken from poor and middle-income people over the last 25 years. This very wealthy brainwashing factory does not need more money to hire even more liberal and leftist professors. I think President Trump is courageous and right in withholding this money from poor little Harvard.
