I love how quick you guys are to become collectivists, when you think it might help your argument.
“The US,” as an entity, does not fund assistantships for foriegn graduate students.
Many private actors, using their private, non-taxpayer dollars, fund assistantship programs.
Gaius
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You took my words and then killed a strawman.
Now you are laughing?
Yes, I am laughing at you.
Does “the US” pay your salary?
Gaius
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University of Nevada, Reno
"Approximately 80 percent of international graduate students receive graduate assistantships "
I can only assume you’re missing the point on purpose.
Yes, most foriegn graduate students recieve assistantships.
No, they’re not paid for by “the US” or “US taxpayers,” as you claimed.
Gaius
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What do corporate profits cost the US hmm?
What about Health Insurance company profits? What do thye cost the US
Cancer from cigarettes?
Insider trading?
CEO salaries?
Free free free free. They are all free.
By your new strawman logic, the only dollars that count are direct grants from the US government.
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I did not say these are direct programs form the US government
You made an obvious strawman and you don’t have the basic honesty to admit it.
(When you have to build your politcal views on such falsehoods, it’s time to change your political views.)
No, you just strongly implied it, to paint these students as leeching from “US taxpayers.”
You can try to pretend that you really meant US companies, US universities, foriegn governments, and NGOs (the primary funding for assistantships) when you collectively referred to “the US,” but the problem with relying on plausible deniability is it has to be plausible.
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