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Hi Abby !
Thanks for your response !
It appears that everytiime Maryland increases its “education subsidies” to UM and other colleges, the tuitions increase….I wonder what would happen if they were cut…A vain dream, I know… I wonder if the “educational establishment” can make their ” rock stars” actually teach ! Again, a vain hope…
And football and basketball coaches earning close to $ 1 million/year ? Get the NBA & NFL to pay them, not us !
When I attended the University of Pittsburgh (1971-1975), I rarely saw a professor teaching any of my classes…. Just grad students…Yet, I paid the “going rate”…
BTW, I worked my way through school, 40 hours/week and taking enough courses to maintain being a “full time” student… I can tell you about some of my classes and my job, but nothing about anything else ( student activities )… I graduated with no debt…
As for post high educations, learn a skilled trade…It’s a good living and with the Internet, you can “follow one’s muse” without paying for it over the next 20+ years.
My wife did the same… It took her 8 years, but she got her BSN this year ! No debt for her !

Employment in the gov sector USED to be low on pay with decent benefits & job security. It was “public service”. That changed many years ago. What makes this article & so many other reports of fed, state & local gov upper management type salaries is the hit middle class taxpayers are taking under the Miller, O’Malley & Busch reign, not to mention the threat from higher taxes from DC. It’s especially difficult if you’re trying to pay UM tuition rates knowing full well that a huge chunk is paying salaries.

Ron,
As a struggling Maryland taxpayer who’s made sacrifices to keep a roof over my head & food on the table ( forget the luxuries like eating out, going to movies & concerts, etc.because I can’t afford them with the increases in taxes & fees ). I want to know how much ” my public servants” are paid !
Why should they paid so much ? I thought that being a civil servant was “sacrificial”, giving up a similar higher paying position in the private sector ? What a sick, pathetic,unfunny joke !
And based on the “products” they put out, they should not be paid at all ! The “pleasure & joy” of being in such lofty positions and what they “produce” should be their pay !

Dear Ron, the people listed in the report are all state employees. There are people in the report who do not work for a university. It just seems that salaries at state universities are especially rich. State employees are paid with the tax dollars collected from citizens of the state. A family making $72,000 may indeed wonder why they are helping to pay the salary of a basketball coach.