As if the recent tuition hikes in the news weren’t bad enough, Pittsburgh will be bending college students over and screwing them adding a 1% college tuition tax to raise $16 million per year for the struggling city. You can read about the whole fiasco in detail from The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Some city officials sound more like a group of 6th graders than public servants:

City Councilman (and apparently the official Asshole of Pittsburgh) Jim Motznik said, “If they (colleges) would have contributed to the City of Pittsburgh like they should have been, there would be no need for this,” he said. “With all the fees and costs college students are paying, this is minimal.” (BTW, 1% of a $30,000 tuition is $300, dick. That’s a lot of Ramen.)

Adding to the brouhaha is the fact “the state Supreme Court has determined attempts to tax institutions of higher education to be illegal.” So, basically, the city will waste taxpayer dollars trying to create a tax that will ultimately be shot down because it’s illegal.

Stay classy, Pittsburgh.

P.S. If you want to tax college students, don’t tax them directly. Just tax the booze.