Taxes have been a debated issue between people for and people
against prop 30 since September 2012. According to L.A times increasing
personal income taxes annual to $25,000 per person who makes that much will be
increased to one quarter cent for every dollar for four years. The benefits
would be towards education; 89% to k-12 schools and 11% to community colleges
and including Cal fire, police. However, people against prop 30 this money
would be towards politicians and their satisfaction. It also will kill jobs,
destroy businesses, it doesn’t guarantee any new funding for schools and includes
no reform. What are the chances to prove if prop 30 is a real solution for us
as students and for others making less money than anybody else? Or we can think
of prop 30 a hope to embrace for everybody.
The change
made by the state of California that it blew out the finances in 2011. The pay for these new obligations, the Legislature
passed a law transferring about $6 billion of state tax revenues to local
governments annually. These programs and responsibilities include
incarcerating certain adult offenders, supervising parolees, and providing
substance abuse treatment services. To pay for these new obligations, it hit us
directly to our pockets because we had to pay for trouble people in jail
instead they should came up with their money. It is understandable to make
programs for people they want to change their way of thinking and succeed. It wouldn’t
be any problem, but people that they don’t want to change it wouldn’t be such a
program. It can be count as a waste of money for some people.
The
financial situation has been through changes during times in California State
until today. The checks for retirement are smaller than twenty years ago, and
also the state pays less per students than before. In 2000 schools I recall
attending to adult school to learn English, and taking the bus. At the time
transportation and classes were free, so our teachers always emphasized to
students like me a “foreigner” coming from another country to attend to class
and take advantages of what the schools offered to us. I am glad I did, but I feel
sorry for others that they didn’t. Now adult schools charges at least twenty to
thirty dollars for semester not including supplies like paper, glue, pencils.
Now whoever wants to attend adult school they have to pay? In 2003 I started
attending Cabrillo College. At the time every unit cost fifteen or seventeen
dollars, and the bus cost a dollar or less. I remember that I could get
register two weeks before classes started or I got a spot in the waiting list
but I still could get register. Those were memorable times for me.
The
surrounding of a “shell game by politicians” threatening big cuts to schools if
prop 30 does not pass. According to SF Gate, Jerry Brown strike fear in voters heart
by threatening people that it will be more budget cuts if prop 30
doesn’t pass, and it is crucial for everybody to make that happened. Politicians
has being waiting for prop 30 to pass, and it can probably be an excellent chance to persuade us to
believe what they want us to believe. Should we vote for prop 30, or we shouldn’t?
It is up to us to decide what’s better
for us
At the end,
it would be a great solution for our financial situation to get students
opportunities and other people if prop 30 result the real deal. But it would be
devastating if our money ended up in politician’s pockets, instead of
education, safety and more programs beneficial to students. On the other hand
we will get the $6 million invested in transferred programs back.
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