(03-30-2018 04:27 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  

(03-30-2018 07:44 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(03-30-2018 12:13 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(03-30-2018 12:12 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(03-29-2018 11:39 PM)ValleyBoy Wrote:  The Bigger problem is the skyrocketing cost of higher education. Now how much of that 157 million and 140 million in revenue goes to help lower the cost of an education at Alabama and Auburn.

Ahem, state lottery, ahem. Wake up and smell the coffee, Alabama!!!

...a poor tax is not a magical panacea for the State’s ills.

Works pretty well for Georgia and Tennessee

Depends on how you look at it...

Lotteries that supply funding for college tuition tend to inflate the price even higher. If the money is guaranteed then administrators will simply raise the tuition to ensure they get as much of it as possible.

I know that in Georgia, the standard by which the scholarship funds were meted out has been increased since the inception of the lottery because there were too many students meeting the initial criteria while the cost of tuition continued to increase. I believe the same has occurred in Florida and I would bet it's happened in Tennessee as well.

To be fair, Federal subsidization does the same thing so perhaps the cat is out of the bag on that matter.

The "Scholarship lottery" led to inflation in Arkansas. Legislature said you've got all this new money (which wasn't new money, just another funding source for student tuition) and basically froze funding.

Fascinating watching the schools deal with it.

UA in Fayetteville got aggressive seeking out-of-state students and now admits more out-of-state than in-state students.

AState has opened a campus in Mexico and a medical school in partnership with another school to drive revenue.

Arkansas Tech has staked out a spot in an open admission role and grown rapidly (geography helps).

Those who haven't adjusted are struggling.