Taxing College Endowments Is Popular. What's The Hold Up?

Ending the Ivy League's sweet deal shouldn't become a partisan political football.

"P_31 Cambridge - The Widener Library (1915) - Harvard University - Massachusetts" by CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

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 …