To the editor:

A recent headline in the Journal-World reads “What if Kansas paid its basketball players?”

Why shouldn’t all students receive a paycheck for attending KU? After all, if it were not for the thousands of students attending a university there could be no basketball team.

This would certainly put a huge dent in the college debt fiasco created by the fraudulent student loan scam that has been underway for probably 20 years. Providing each student with $40,000 a year for expenses would come back to the university — anyway the lion’s share. And could be set up as an expense for doing business, thus a deduction at tax time. Sounds good to me.

Add the source below to the university bottom line in addition to tax-deductible donations, there is no way our learning institution could ever go broke.

I say let’s get on with it. Let’s start demonstrating some respect for ALL students and what they bring to our community.

Also, please, all sources of tax-exempt donations are forbidden to interfere with university operations to include subject matter. Keep your special interest opinions and demands to yourselves.