State Republicans are proposing a plan to avoid possible cuts to public education through budget solutions instead of the tax initiative proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Should Brown’s tax initiative fail to pass in November, the UC and CSU systems would suffer trigger cuts of $200 million each, according to Brown’s January budget plan. In a Tuesday letter to student leaders, Republican legislators presented an alternative “Roadmap to Protect Classrooms and Taxpayers” that seeks to prevent those and other potential cuts to education without raising taxes.
Brown’s tax initiative is expected to raise $6 billion through an increase of a quarter cent to the state sales tax along with a higher income tax for those making more than $250,000 a year. The Republican plan aims to free up $4.4 billion in state funds.
Under the Republican plan, education funding would come from sources like Facebook’s upcoming sale of stock, increased tax revenues as a result of the economic recovery, halting the development of new government programs and streamlining existing ones. The roadmap dedicates all new tax revenue to halt education trigger cuts and seeks to reallocate certain pots of discretionary spending from existing government programs — such as mental health and other social programs. It is not yet clear which programs may be subject to these funding changes.
William Bird, spokesperson for State Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, said Republicans are still deciding how to model their plan based on past budget actions.
A February Legislative Analyst’s Office report states that state higher education general fund support has declined by 21 percent since 2007-08, and Brown’s proposal would increase its core funding by 1.2 percent. However, Brown’s proposal would also decrease funding for the California Student Aid Commission by 61.7 percent. This decrease includes measures to raise GPA requirements for Cal Grant eligibility, which will affect about 26,600 students.
Spokespersons from Brown’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
At the March UC Board of Regents meeting, UC President Mark Yudof said he will recommend that the board endorse Brown’s tax initiative in a future meeting. However, several regents remained wary of its impacts and said more negotiation with legislators would need to take place.
On Saturday and Sunday, the UC Student Association held a board meeting at UC Irvine to discuss the two initiatives and consider endorsing Brown’s proposal, according to Darius Kemp, the association’s communications and organizing director. The systemwide Academic Senate has already voted to urge the regents to endorse plans that prioritize higher education funding.
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“Your WSJ article doesn’t exist. You made it up to attack the California lawmakers.”
It certainly does, you clueless little child. I provided it once already, here you go again:
California’s Greek Tragedy (March 13, 2012)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577277242682364690.html
Let me know when you are ready to apologize.
The article was written by two right-wingers from the conservative (yuck) group Hoover Institution of Stanfurd (yuck).
The WSJ is owned by the corrupt 1%er Murdoch.
You have chosen a very biased, unreputable source.
The authors distorted the facts to stir up conservative clowns like you and you lapped it up.
Go back to watching Fox News, you right winger.
“The article was written by two right-wingers from the conservative (yuck) group Hoover Institution of Stanfurd (yuck).”
So what? That doesn’t make it non-existent or incorrect.
“You have chosen a very biased, unreputable source.”
Oh really? The WSJ is read in financial centers all over the world, primarily because it’s considered to be a very credible source of information – in fact, even more so than that darling of liberals known as the NYT. On the other hand, who reads your nonsensical crap outside a couple of Berkeley-related websites?
“Go back to watching Fox News, you right winger.”
I don’t watch Fox News, as I don’t even own a TV. However, I do get news and info from a number of sources, including newspapers, peer-reviewed journals, radio (both public and commercial) and from online sources. But feel free to make up more incorrect assumptions and accusations, given you have already proved yourself to be an ignorant fool.
Proud BA is a wacko. Ignore his blather. He’s a 1% er wack job.
Please tell me you are not a Cal student. I would hate to think that any Cal student could actually ignore reputable scholars because they happen to work for Stanford. While Stanford is our rival in sports, that does not diminish the work of their faculty. They are always a top five university in the world, and when their faculty publish, you should have much better reasons than you have for rejecting their findings.
I doubt he’s a student at any college anywhere, at least not one engaged in any serious course of study. Most likely another Occutard chanting the mantra that has been programmed in his little head…
“Governor Jerry Brown insisted in his State of the State speech last week that California is “still the land of dreams.” He’s certainly right if he’s referring to his latest fantasy that raising taxes on the upper middle-class will generate an additional $5 billion annually over the next five years, eliminate the state’s chronic budget deficits and pay down a large portion of its debt. Fortunately, the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office, of all unlikely Sacramento institutions, has checked in from realityville.
In a new report, the office warns that the initiative that Mr. Brown wants to put on the November ballot to raise taxes on top earners might not generate as much revenue as he projects because their income is extremely volatile. Mr. Brown wants to increase the rates on individuals making between $250,000 and $300,000 to 10.3% from 9.3% and to 10.8% for those earning up to $500,000. The “millionaires” earning more than $500,000 would pay 11.3%.
The top 1% of earners already pay about 40% of the state’s income taxes, a large chunk of which is on capital gains that are taxed at the same rate as wages. In the past, changes in the economy and stock prices have caused huge fluctuations in capital gains income and tax revenue.
Income from capital gains soared to $165 billion in 2000 from $28 billion in 1994. These earnings plunged to $68 billion in 2002 after the tech bubble burst but rose again to $153 billion in 2007 during the real estate boom—and then plummeted to $56 billion in 2009. The crash caused a $9 billion decline in capital gains tax revenue over those two years, which lawmakers made up by raising income and sales tax rates in 2009.
As the Analyst’s Office notes, “because the Governor’s budget proposal is centered on his idea for these wealthy tax filers to pay more, the state would become more dependent on this uncertain revenue source.” The report projects that capital gains income next year will be about 35% lower than what the Governor estimates and that his proposed millionaire tax would raise about $2 billion less annually than Mr. Brown predicts.
“Over time, [the Department of Finance] assumes capital gains begin to approach levels only experienced during previous stock market and real estate ‘bubbles,’” the Analyst’s Office writes. “We advise the Legislature to regard these estimates with some caution.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577156871353490202.html
What sort of person thinks there is nothing wrong with keeping millions of illegal aliens and their children in this country and then act as if that has no effect on our government’s budget which is already based on fantasies?
The illegal alien of today is the Democrat voter of tomorrow. That explains it right there.
What is wrong with immigrants? You ancestors were ones correct?
What sort of person thinks there is nothing wrong with asking folks who educate our children to take a 20% cut on a $50,000 annual salary, but think it’s terrible idea to ask millionaires to pay an addtional 3% taxes?
The sort of person who recognizes that isn’t the real issue. This is not teachers vs. the rich. It is the legislators who are cutting teachers’ salaries. Legislators were given a lot of money before the recession, and instead of taking care of that money so that education was covered during hard times, they spent it, and often spent it on things that were not needed.
The fact you should know is that raising taxes on the rich does not guarantee money for education. Your democratic legislators refuse to say they will put any of the new revenue to education. At least, the republicans are ear marking money for education by reducing spending on other programs.
”The fact you should know is that raising taxes on the rich does not guarantee money for education.”
I don’t think Arwen knows much about ANYTHING in the real world, given that a perusal of her other postings online indicate a preoccupation with cosplay and anime. I guess that’s all fine and dandy if you’re a Japanese adolescent cavorting with your schoolmates in costume outside of the Shinjuku JR station on some weekend afternoon, but it certainly doesn’t suggest any grip on the type of issues that grown adults deal with on a daily basis.
Well it’s not exactly like Arwen is spending today going over her taxes, wondering where the hell all her money went…
As usual State Republicans propose a plan to avoid cuts to public education by eliminating services designed to help the poor, the unemployed, the hungry. veterans, seniors, children, the disabled etc. as opposed to taxing themselves and their rich friends. These Republicans should be run out of office on a rail.
Services that throw money at the poor and unemployed aren’t helping. That is neither compassion nor help. In reality, we need to completely reform them, but I don’t see that happening soon.
In the mean time, let’s not allow cuts to our one most important investment: education.
This argument is a red herring to draw attention from the real problems in our system where only the wealthy can afford to educate their children while 99% of the rest of the population are excluded from education by virtue of its costs. Quality education should be free to all those who wish to be educated and mandatory as it is now up to the age of 18. But quality education is the key and to fund that you will have to change the tax structure so that investment income is taxed in the same manner as income received through a pay check.
Anyone who argues for the kind of solution suggested by Guest No 23 does not understand the need to educate all our of people in the United States to serve its people and its economy without burdening them with crippling debt.
What sort of person thinks there is nothing wrong with asking teachers who educate our children to take a 20% cut on a $50,000 annual salary, but think it’s terrible idea to ask millionaires to pay an addtional 3% taxes?
[This argument is a red herring to draw attention from the real problems
in our system where only the wealthy can afford to educate their
children while 99% of the rest of the population are excluded from
education by virtue of its costs.]
Oh, bullshit. In reality the vast majority of those in the 99% who have shown the interest and ability to make it through college have that opportunity, with a considerable amount of that cost already financed by the 1%. What you’re doing is making the same old impossibly silly demands we hear all the time from the Left, namely that everyone should be able to attend any college or university they want for free, AND that the taxpayers should also fund every other idea you people think of as well, whether it be universal health care, sex change operations for government workers, or college for illegal aliens. You don’t deal in reality because in all likelihood you don’t pay taxes yourself.
As usual liberals can’t think of any solutions that don’t involve taxing other people. Liberals want sanctuary for illegal aliens but can’t seem to associate that to demand for social services and schools so they view it as an Act of God and want Republicans to pay for emergency management of that crisis by hiring more unionized public employees. 95% of the time unions support Democrat politicians, who dream up new ways of hiring more public union employees while raising taxes on the corporations that provide jobs for California.
When services for the poor, hungry, and disabled compete for funding with services for illegal aliens and their children, liberals pretend everyone can be accommodated simply by increasing taxes on the rich. But the rich will never pay their “fair share” no matter how progressive the tax brackets are as long as they make more money than the envious poor.
The Democratic party has itself in a bind. The majority of its constituency are either low-income people, people who work for the government, or people who don’t work at all. Democrats keep these people in their camp by promising goodies paid for by other people’s money. Unfortunately, the more people who are dependent on government, the more money needed to feed the beast.
Liberals make a big fuss about the “rich” not paying enough in taxes, even though the top 1% pays between 30% and 35% of all individual income tax receipts, both at the federal and the state level. The REAL problem, however, is the people who pay NO taxes whatsoever – the ones who blindly support every new spending program out of Sacramento, because they are convinced that someone ELSE will be paying the bill. A few weeks ago the WSJ laid out the issue in a way you will never see in the SF Comical, LA Times, or the Daily Cal, by comparing the number of state taxpayers with state residents. It turns out that between 1985 and 2010, the population in the state of California increased by 10 MILLION, but the number of individuals actually paying state income taxes only increased 100,ooo. Effectively the number of adults in the state of California who pay state income taxes has dropped from 3/4 to slightly over one half. When we finally get to the point in this state where the majority of voters pay NO income taxes whatsoever, we are screwed.
That’s a lie! Show your source.
Nothing makes me laugh more than the shrieks of the activist cockroaches as the light is shined on them. Here’s the link, you ignorant little child. Read it for yourself: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577277242682364690.html
Your WSJ article doesn’t exist. You made it up to attack the California lawmakers. Well, let me tell you, buddy, we the 99% will vote for that tax bill to fund Cal education.
Anyone who votes against the bill hates Berkeley, hates education, and is very selfish.
And as usual idiot liberals blame the Republicans for all their problems. I know you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed, but the State Legislature is responsible for budgeting and appropriations, and the Republicans haven’t had any type of controlling majority there in years. The problem is that the state of California spends way too much money on programs and activities that are neither mandated in the State Constitution nor affordable, due to the need to pander to people like you and your self-appointed-activist fellow travelers. Instead of p!ssing and moaning about others not paying enough, why don’t yet get a real job so you can pay taxes yourself?
Tony M….well if it isn’t the troll again on the Daily Cal!!! You are laughable and every time you post everyone is laughing at your ridiculous posts.
And exactly how many people have hit the old “like” button for your posts?
You’re the troll, Arwen. Were you even a student at Cal in the first place?
Any state that has money to fund college educations for illegal aliens and build high-speed trains to serve the Bakersfield-to-Fresno market apparently has too much of of the taxpayer’s money already. Come back when you get in touch with reality, Arwen.
As usual, the state republicans are saying that we should look to cut new programs that were created during the good times, before we start cutting education. Any Cal student should recognize that we are being thrown under the bus by democrats who would rather keep the high speed rail and other waste than educate students.
well no crap the rest of the regents are going to be against it… they’re all rich people
I’m not rich and I’m against it. LAWLS=FAIL
You always make it about rich vs. poor. The source of this mess isn’t rich regents. The source of this mess is our legislature which has done a pathetic job of controlling their spending. During the good times, they acted like fools with their uncontrolled spending. And now instead of cutting back on all the new programs they built, they are cutting spending on education. You shouldn’t hate the rich, because it is the legislators who hate Cal.
Liberals hate those rich people who won’t cater to their narcissistic need for control. In their minds, they know better how to spend their money, but the inability to have any such control over them is a source of ongoing frustration.
…never ending spending and control.
Brown’s tax initiative.
Why do Libs think the solution is increase taxes? Gimmie more of your money……
Hell no buddy, figure out how to make do with what you have.
Why do you always make everything Libs vs Cons? Oh wait, it’s because you need to use blanket statements because you never have anything to backup your points.
Why do you make everything rich vs. poor?
Why do always start arguments on liberal vs. conservative? Look in the mirror.
What did librsclowns say that is factually incorrect? Given all the blather from the left-of-center crowd, all the fiscal problems in this state are the fault of the so-called “rich” not paying enough in taxes. The idea that this state (and the UC system) engage in gross fiscal mismanagement doesn’t ever seem to cross your small minds.
The Lib infestation in SACTO must be eliminated if Cali is to reverse its death spiral down the shitter.
Decades of Lib appropriation and mismanagement of our resources on programs that benefit deadenders, social justice BS, over regulation, illegals, welfare scammers and Eco-wackos have now drained the treasury. Show me a pro growth, pro business, work incentive program and watch the dinero roll in.
”Decades of Lib appropriation and mismanagement of our resources on
programs that benefit deadenders, social justice BS, over regulation,
illegals, welfare scammers and Eco-wackos have now drained the treasury.”
True, but it will probably take some of these googly-eyed students a few years in the work force, paying taxes, and dealing with the outrageous behavior of California politicians and bureaucrats run amuck to get any clue what’s going on, given that what passes for “education” in the humanities and social sciences in the UC and CSU systems is often one-sided propaganda and advocacy for the progressive welfare state.
Hey librclowns…fix the economy by creating jobs at a living wage. Also, if you are a millionaire then contribute to the general fund on the state and federal level.