Hi Gang:

In the 2009 California State Budget, K thru 12 is 30.2% of the budget, Higher Education[College] is 9.7%.

Both items total 39.9% of the California State Budget for 2009.

Some are screaming that Higher Education[College] is a right, just like K thru 12[elementary and high school] is now.

Do you agree???

Before you answer be aware that K thru 12 is not free as many believe.

K thru 12 is paid for by taxes paid by California citizens.

Would you be willing the pay the great increase in taxes in order to make this possible???

Your opinion ,please.

hippolips

No, the cost of college should not be pushed onto the taxpayer any more than it already is. My taxes pay a good amount already for state run universities.

I pay more for school taxes than any other line item on my tax bill, and that only covers K-12th grades.

I don't have any children but pay about 5K each year to educate my neighbor's children. Fair enough, but I don't want to pay any more

UCLA students protested this week over a $2500 fee hike. If they don't value the cost of their own education, why should taxpayers?

Next thing you know, I'll find out there has been a free phone program since Reagan was President and that over 50% of American welfare recipients are obese.

Protesting a raise in an item's cost hardly means one doesn't value the item. On the contrary, it usually means that the item is important enough that one considers it almost essential in life. I seem to recall some protests about rising costs just prior to a very early war in this country.

I think it means they are ticked off about having to pay $2500 more in tuition next year.

Boy, the various tea duties and taxes did a whole lot to help tea sales and the financial health of the East India Company! I wonder if tuition hikes will do the same for education?

The people can only take so much before they revolt.

On a off topic subject (but related) New York State citizens stood up this week and "revolted" again yet another "new" tax.

The state wanted to issue new license plates and charge the registrant $25 to get the tags!!

That was always included in the registration fee whenever they changed plates but now they wanted to add a new "fee".

We revolted and after a few days of email campaigns and people fed up with it speaking out our governor caved and rescinded the fee .

Hopefully the plate too because it was real ugly. (and it won't match my vehicle at all) Score one for the lil' guy!

Not to leave out that vehicle registration fees went up 45-80% this year! It will cost me almost twice the amount to register my vehicles and trailers next year

But that "fee" goes to the MTA so that poorly run and is riddled with corruption can continue to steal taxpayer money

Not to mention the new payroll tax that small business must now pay to help bail out the MTA


we are all doomed!

LOS ANGELES -- Amid vocal protests, one of the largest university systems in the nation voted Thursday to raise fees for undergraduates by 32 percent over the coming year, impelled by steep state budget cuts.

The University of California's board of regents approved the fee increase while meeting at the University of California in Los Angeles, where thousands of students were among those protesting at UC campuses throughout the state.

The fees, which will be levied in two stages, will raise undergraduate fees to more than $10,000 -- triple what students paid a decade ago.

After two increases by next fall, basic UC undergraduate fees will cost $10,302 a year, plus about $1,000 in extra campus charges. Room, board and books can add another $16,000. - LA Times

Students will be paying about three times as much as they did a decade ago.

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Originally posted by DorianGreyed:
Students will be paying about three times as much as they did a decade ago.

Welcome to the world of third party payments. Inflation is way higher than it is for most other goods and services.

College is now repulsively expensive. It's no wonder people are learning skills at community colleges, instead. The largest group of identified student groups at our community college are people who already have four year degrees.

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The fees, which will be levied in two stages, will raise undergraduate fees to more than $10,000 -- triple what students paid a decade ago.

I almost hate to admit this, but when I went to the U of CA 35 years ago I paid $627 a year.

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I almost hate to admit this, but when I went to the U of CA 35 years ago I paid $627 a year.

Well, I don't mind admitting that I went to college for four years 25 years ago and it cost me nothing! Everything was covered by the government, including fees, accomodation and travel. Such was the UK grant system at that time, and it helped to be the eldest of four children.