Taxing College Endowments Is Popular. What's The Hold Up?
Ending the Ivy League's sweet deal shouldn't become a partisan political football.
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I got my Masters at Syracuse University, which is based in an upstate New York town that shares the same name.
Syracuse is a post-industrial town that has lost tens of thousands of residents since 1950. Almost half of …