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communique_______ YoUMfWE /fNV doubts 4&&ar T he Balancing budget ßCONoMIC. t POLICIES? I J Cut to show trimming hurts It’s become an annual event. With puts from the sfate it looks as though the College is In for another tui tion hike. The jump could be anywhere from $10 to $30 per term, beginning fail term in 1982. As much as anyone hates to see the College’s tuition raised once again, raising tuition is probably better for the College on a whole, than accommodating the newly acquired cuts in some other way. Before you start saying, ‘This editorial is getting crazy,’ read on a ways. The raising of tuition, because of the current budget cuts, can work as a defense for future cuts. This raise will be a very visible way of handling the cuts. That way, if more cuts become a possibility to the College, those responsible for bringing the ax down will be able to see how these cuts hurt the College. Cuts could be kept internal where no one would real ly notice them, like cutting a small portion from each department’s budget, thus trimming back on services. Even when students see cutting back in specific depart ments that they are involved in, they do not get an overall picture of how much is actually being cut. A tuition hike would mean a lot more to everyone, even to those not at tending the College. As Gov. Atiyeh’s proposal for solving the state’s deficit was first presented, memos were circulating throughout the campus asking for possibilities of what could be cut without outwardly showing much impact. Why keep the impact of cuts under wraps? The only thing that is going to accomplish is more cuts. It looks pretty ridiculous to send students down to Salem to rally against cuts to community colleges, and then when the cuts do occur, hide them away. People viewing this will just say, “I thought you said you qould not afford the cuts.” The memos are once again going around campus to all the deparments. But before the final decision is made about who is going to receive what cut, we need to think about whether or not we want people to see how much the cuts are affecting the College. Sales tax fairest way for all So what is wrong with Oregon going to a sales tax? About the only argument that keeps coming out against the state starting up a sales tax is that the people hurt most will be the poor. That’s just not true. Of all the taxation ideas that have ever been suggested, a sales tax would be the fairest to everyone. By Rick Obritschkewitsch Those who are opposed to this type of taxation because of how unfair it is to the poor, are arguing that the poor are not pay ing property taxes (which is what the sales tax would be designed to take away from). But the poor already are paying property taxes, even though they may not be aware of it. Final Exam Schedule Time Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday 8-10 8 M 7:30 T 9 M 10-12 10 M 9T 11 M 12-2 12 M 10:30 T 1 M 2-4 2 M 1 T 3 M 4-6 Conflicts 2:30 T Conflicts THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, aims to be a fair and Impartial journalistic medium ■covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opi nions expressed In THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of the College administration, faculty, Associated Student Govern ment or other staff members of THE PRINT. office: Trailor B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310 editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch ' news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Tina Riggs sports editor: Wanda Percival photo editor: Duane Hiersche; copy editor: Mike Rose staff writers: Kristi Blackman, Amy De Vour. Laura Henkes, Alison Hull, Jay Lynch, Thomas A. Rhodes Tracy Sumner, Darla J. Weinberger statt photographers: Reid Carscadden, Duffy Coffman cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes business manager: Joan Seely sales: Angie Rogantine typesetter: Pennie Keefer; . advisor: Dana Spielmann Most people are living under some type of shelter, and that means they are paying for that privilege. So the owner of every piece of property is paying some type of property tax. And those renting their property out are not going to pick up the bill to pay the property taxes all by themselves. However, the owner will charge his renters a percentage of the taxation. Many people say they are stretching their incomes, right now, just to be able to survive. The sales tax. which is being con sidered would exclude food and drugs, so that the very bare necessities would be tax free. If a person were that poor the only thing he would need to buy that would have a tax on it would be clothing. Plus they could get $45 back at the end of the year. As for some of the disposable things that have to'be purchas ed, such as diapers, they also come in the reuseable type. That is true with just about every disposable item that is needed. Most things came out in the reuseable type first, It is only in contem porary times that our country has switched to a “disposable socie ty.” It is just that Americans have gotten so use to disposables, that they are almost thought of as one of the basics of life. iMrzResr mm »,. Z uh huh . > HAlR-OF-THf- As for the argument that a sales tax might hurt Oregon’s tourist trade, Oregon is one of the few states left that has not gone to this type of tax. That means, most of the state’s tourists are already use to a sales tax, and it should not effect tourism one way or the other. Aside from property tax payers benefitting from a sales tax, more people would be involved in this program than are currently involved in paying property taxes. This addition would come from those who are minors living at home, not paying any rent, but still earning an income. They would be paying the sales tax. Do you have an interest? Concern? Problem? Complaint? Want to vent steam? Warn the world? Raise some hell? Inform the public? Care about social problems? Political kibbutzing? Foreign af fairs? Local issues? Then let people know! Write a letter to... The Print Trailer “B” Clackamas Community College ...or ca// us at ext. 309, 310. All letters must be signed, and preferably typed. Clackamas Community College