Students from around the state rallied at the state capitol yesterday, urging the governor and legislature to find a budget solution without draconian cuts to higher education. Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi told students to tell the legislature: Kick us out, we'll vote you out.
Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata said raising taxes was the answer:
Students also picketed the governor's Los Angeles office."This is not a complicated problem," Perata said. "We need to raise taxes to continue educating Californians. It's no more complicated than that. A small increase in taxes will guarantee you the right to an education and it will guarantee me that there will be people around to pay Social Security taxes when I'm collecting it."
Ventura County Star
Links:
- Nearly 2,000 protest college spending cuts (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Students protest proposed budget cuts to higher education (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Students from CSUCI rally against planned cuts (Ventura County Star)
- Students protest cuts to education (Vallejo Times-Herald)
- CSUMB students join Sacramento budget protest (The Salinas Californian)
- Protests about education cuts ring out from students, Democrats (Contra Costa Times)
- Local students head to Sacramento (The Eureka Reporter)
- Students Protest Proposed Cuts to Colleges (KXTV News 10 Sacramento)
- Students March Against Budget Cuts (KQCA Sacramento 58)
- Dan Walters: Expanding budget deficit bugs Capitol (Sacramento Bee)
- Dan Walters: Politicians routinely lie about finances (Sacramento Bee)
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