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      <title>Comments On: Lawmakers Don&apos;t Get GET: Prepaid Tuition Plan Is Insurance, Not an Investment
    
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      <![CDATA[King Tom will have you flogged for uttering this heresy! Underlings. <br>
        
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      <![CDATA[Goldy, you're missing the boat entirely on this.  You got in early and won the game.  Everyone since gets a worse and worse deal.  Last one in is the sucker.<br>
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GET was a giveaway to the early, well-informed, numerate participants.  It's currently a huge ripoff being pawned off on innumerate masses in order to bail-out the early participants.
        
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      <![CDATA[Last year Rodney Tom chaired the Higher Ed. Committee.  This guy is a disgrace to his family.
        
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      <![CDATA[Rodney Tom is a douche bag who needs a swift kick in the head.
        
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      <![CDATA[You were smart. I invested in Scholarshare, a 529 plan sponsored by California, for the past 12 years. I put $500 a month into that and I am just breaking even. I would have been better sticking it under my mattress or buying GET.
        
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      <![CDATA[Rich people have a way of paying for tuition.<br />
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They just don't want everyone else to go to college.
        
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      <![CDATA[Has any Dem declared to run against this yahoo yet?  I got money to burn.  <br />
Absent someone to donate to at the moment, is there an offshore institution making book on Tom's electoral defeat?<br />
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      <![CDATA[There was a time when paying into a college fund in advance was regarded as the responsible thing to do.
        
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      <![CDATA[GET's side-effect of penalizing the state for recklessly defunding higher education is a feature, not a bug.<br />
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Tom is breaking new ground in ways to tank his approval ratings. Did he have a stroke over the summer? Switch meds? Convert to Scientology?
        
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