Lieuallen calls for tax relief cut
By GREG WASSON
01 the Emerald
"If we don't get anymore dol
lars, we really ought to self-im
pose some enrollment re
strictions and serve fewer peo
ple."
—Roy Lieuallen
But Lieuallen, the chancellor
of the State System of Higher
Education, is quick to add that
such reductions mean more
than fewer professors.
“In my judgment, society
does beneifit from placing peo
ple in a learning environment. In
many cases, those who go there
for possibly less than academic
reasons get turned on and
become much more productive
citizens than they would other
wise have been.”
Given that, Lieuallen is for
finding additional revenues
rather than resrtricting access.
But where? His first suggestion
is property tax relief.
“You are spending the same
money to provide higher
education services, and you are
spending it to provide welfare.
In other words, it’s just another
expenditure of state revenues.”
However, political realities
dispute Lieuallen's claims that
tax relief is just “another ex
penditure.” Last week, Repub
Mean leaders in both the House
and the Senate called for a firm
legislative committment not to
reduce the 30 percent relief
package contained in Gov. Vic
Atiyeh’s proposed budget.
Lieuallen says he wonders if
that concern is over empha
sized.
"There is a general legislative
perception that to tinker wtih
property tax relief is to court
political disaster. I don’t think
that’s true. But unless some of
the influential people — editors,
prominent business people —
express some point of view, the
Legislature won’t have much to
persude them.”
The 30 percent relief plan was
fashioned by the 1979 Legisla
ture in part to ensure that an
Howard Jarvis-type property tax
limitation, California's Proposi
tion 13, wouldn’t be approved in
Oregon.
“I'm only arguing that we did
more than we could afford,"
explains Lieualien.
Before the session, Lieualien
proposed that the state should
not make any attempt to main
tain the 30 percent tax payment
level but simply keep the same
dollar commitment in the
1981 -83 bienium as it has now.
According to the Legislative
Fiscal Office, such an alteration
would free up about $70 million,
slightly less than a 15 percent
increase over what Atiyeh
proposes to send to higher
education during the next two
years.
African leader raps U.S. policy,
says revolution brewing in U.S.
Americans should be working
for non-intervention in El Sal
vador and Nicaragua, the
chairer of the African People’s
Socialist Party told a University
audience Monday.
Omali Yeshitela said “the
belligerence of the present
administration” is causing
Nicaragua to prepare to defend
its revolution.
“The difficulties they an
ticipate in the future in Nicar
agua will probably be launched
from this country," he said.
Yeshitela recently returned
from a week in Nicaragua,
where he participated in an In
ternational Conference on
Solidarity with Nicaragua as a
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The forum today and Wed
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Today’s workshop, beginning
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representative of the black
liberation movement in the
United States.
The APSP leader compared
his stay in Nicaragua to “step
ping into the future.” The ruling
FSLN has outlawed the oppres
sion of women and exploitation
of workers, he said.
“When the FSLN took power
in 1979, there was only $3,000
left. Somoza and his bandits,
supported by the United States
government, had literally
robbed the treasury."
The Somoza regime also de
stroyed factories and stole trac
tors and other equipment before
fleeing the country, he added.
Young people play a key role
in the Nicaraguan revolution,
Yeshitela said. It was “a
tremendous thing” to see 17
and 18-year-olds in positions of
authority, Yeshitela said.
Amerian youth “live in the
center of problems for people
around the world," he said.
Yeshitela also commented on
the returned American hos
tages, drawing snickers from
the audience as he referred to
them as "chumps.”
"They were chumps if they
weren’t spies and criminals,” he
said.
Yeshitela compared imper
ialism to a vampire that depends
on the blood of oppressed peo
ple. Revolution is keeping the
blood from being made
available, he said.
The American "ruling class"
is in trouble, Yeshitela said.
Watergate and Vietnam "creat
ed a serious contradiction with
in the ruling class itself” by
causing many white Americans
to turn against the government.
"Despite the belligerency and
sabre-rattling, Ronald Reagan
represents a system in crisis — a
dying and weakened system.”
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The governor's propsed bud
get allocates nearly one out of
every ten state dollars to higher
education.
"I don’t personally feel that I
mistreated them in terms of all
other agencies of state govern
ment. I think, as a matter of fact,
that I treated them very well in
regard to all other agencies.”
But the chancellor is still not
satisfied. He’s determined to
plead his case despite the
expected defeat.
”1 do know that somebody
had damn well better try. I’m not
willing to say that because it’s a
difficult job, we ought to accept
the reality of 30 percent tax
relief and let everything go to
hell.”
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