Posted on 03/22/2012 4:43:26 PM PDT by SmithL
Because of the high qualify of education we have here - they can’t add up the budget versus the expenses and figure out that they’re trying to get blood out of a stone! On the other hand - in true DEMOCRATIC fashion, CA will vote itself yet another freebee - and continue down the bankruptcy path.
I can just imagine what tuition will be 5 years after this passes. Double? Triple? And of course, the tax will then have to be increased.
Californians are pretty politically stupid people, so this kind of thing is probably pretty appealing to many of them.
If I lived there I think it would be fun to start a ballot initiative that constitutionally required the state of California to send “the 99%” one million dollars per year on tax day. It would be hilarious to see if enough Californians exist right now to pass such an absurd idea. I think there might be.
Seriously, anyone living in CA should move out. The place is a lost cause. We could really use good conservatives in other places to help bolster our numbers in increasingly purple states like VA, NC, CO, etc.
No, no, they won't charge more, it's going to be free. Wait sorry..... esta gratis amigo. /s
and all the staff at these Colleges will work for free ?
Wow, this would add $500 a year to property taxes and lord knows what to sales taxes.
I will send my kid to UCLA for his first year of College and pay the out of state tuition.
By the second year he will be eligible for state residency and he can get free in state tuition.
If out of state tuition is too expensive I can just send him there to live for a year. He can just live and work for a year. Then get residency and go to school for FREE.
If they actually pass such a law that is exactly what would happen for millions of high school graduates. I guarantee it.
I hope this passes. Throw in free gasoline for the commute also. It would be a great exclamation mark to the pathetic state of CA
Let’s have free profs at Berkeley. If students can go free, then why not the rest of them?
They can just raise taxes on business and any working Californian.
Oh, I shouldn't count on that. There won't be any businesses left to work for. And competition for government jobs will be intense. And, by the way, does he speak Spanish?
What happens if all the folks making 250,000+ a year move out of California?
Did they bother to think of that?
So who do they figure pays if that happens?
Welfare for college profs.
And my kid can work under the table as good as any illegal. He has no pride.
Why, the whole community will come together and put on a show. They'll make their own costumes, play their own instruments, write their own script, take it to the Hollywood Bowl...and have a giant hit on their hands.
The proceeds will pay for college tuition for everybody. There will even be collateral benefit, proving that they can do anything if they only cooperate -- so that everybody, of all races and classes, learns to love each other.
Failing that, there's always unicorns pooping gold pieces...
It is probably more likely that unicorns will have to poop gold pieces. LOL
As long as the federal taxpayer doesn’t have to pay for it, I say “Knock yourself out.”
lots of small business will close
The text for initiative actually says that eventually they will to make cuts or find another revenue source.
“Summary of estimate by
Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government:
Annual loss of state tuition revenue of about $2.8 billion per year beginning in 2013-14, backfilled
by additional state personal income tax revenue that is likely to total $2 billion or more per year.
Potential shortfalls in university resources in some fiscal years would have to be addressed
through some combination of cost reductions and alternative funding sources, which could create
pressure on the state General Fund. (11-0086)”
http://collegeforcalifornia.org/Home/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Text-of-Initiative.pdf
http://collegeforcalifornia.org/Home/the-initiative/
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