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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.
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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
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sports editor: Wanda Percival
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. 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.
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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.
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