The Clackamas Print Page 3
Wednesday, Jan. 25 1995
CAMPUS VEIWS
Budget Brainstorming
Alex Krieg, student:
“We should go to the high
schools and have representatives
from each program. That might
be a good way to get the high
schools more excited about
school.”
Brenda Bellamy, ASG senator:
“Overall enrollment will in­
crease, there will be ups and
downs. Eventually it (enrollment)
should go back up. A tuition in­
crease seems like a permanent
solution to a temporary problem.”
by Christi Snavely
Opinion Editor
Photos by
Chad Patteson
Shannon Weber, student:
“We have baseball fields and
a track, we could host more
events...This is a community cam­
pus and we don’t have a lot of
activity with the community, and
there is a lot of things that all of
this wonderful space could be
used to raise money.”
Nick Molatore, computer sci­
ence instuctor:
“The computer lab has al­
ready been cut back, suppat staff
is stretched beyond it’s means.
Right now were so backed up
with stuff to do.”
Peggy Hess, cashiers office:
* ‘T would like to sec registra­
tion cut down to about a week to
two weeks,...you wouldn’t have to
have as many part-time people,...
we wouldn’t have to be open as
many nights.”
Mary Dykes, assistant dean of
student services:
“I would like to see some
staff and administrators be able
to teach a class in addition to our
administrative load...There’s a
lot of talent out here in our ad­
ministrative staff.”
Tax cuts will buy you a car, a house, an education
Eric Eatherton
Staff Writer
Now that we have a Republi­
can majority in Congress (and ol’
Newt is. the Speaker), the possi­
bility of tax cuts is very real. And
people ask me what I believe Con­
gress should do about tax cuts. So,
I decided I would write out my
thesis on tax cuts.
The important point I want
to raise about tax cuts is that they
pay for themselves. Why do they
pay for themselves? Changes in
human behavior. The less money
government withholds from
people (or more appropriately,
their paychecks), the more money
people have in their pockets,
which in turn leads into an in­
crease in conspicuous consump­
tion.
The more money people
spend, the more revenue business
generates. That in turn generates
tax revenue as a result of corpo­
rate taxes. At least nickels on the
dollar more than what you began
same shoppers would buy more of
those items.
And while we’re on the sub­
ject of economy, there’s another
thing that could save us dollars -
the greater efficiency of our gov­
ernment.
Why not have government
run like a business? For every
dollar taxpayers fork over to
Washington, only 280 returns to
the beneficiaries. If your business
was run like that, you’d be sum­
marily out of business within
with, which in turn answers what
some people consider the draw­
back to tax cuts a necessity in
spending cuts due to aloss of rev­
enue. And then you repeat the
process.
That is a psychoeconomic
standpoint of tax cuts’. Yet even
without the usage of statistics, the
case I make is a valid one. You
go to (fill in name of your favor­
ite mall here) and you will see big-
ticket items there. With more
money in their pockets, those
about six months.
So if our taxes are cut, what
then do I suggest you do with the
extra money? Buy yourself a
wardrobe. Or a house or a car. Or,
how about an education here at
Clackamas? Yeah, that’s the
ticket. We need the students (and
if you were reading the Print, I
wouldn’t have to tell you that;
you’d already know).
Let Congress know you want
your oppressively burdensome
taxes cut, and cut now!
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