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Tom Coburn: “I have often wondered, how can you be for profit when you are getting 90 percent of your money from the taxpayers.”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011
I have often wondered, how can you be for profit when you are getting 90 percent of your money from the taxpayers.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Questions the profitability of for-profit colleges funded largely by taxpayer dollars.

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