Declining financial support drives students away.

Abstract

Cutting taxes in order to spur economic development is an idea still making its way around the political landscape. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times “trickle down” economics has been debunked not only by economists, but also by history, it seems to linger. Yet, this is part of an ideology that is considered as gospel by many politicians. Of course the idea has one superficial appeal and one superficial appeal only. It promises to cut taxes, even if the ones who benefit the most from such policies are the ones who need them the least