GOP Assemblyman Rocky Chavez Pushing New Subsidies -- Disappointing
Written By: Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
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RIDER COMMENT
I found this Tweet rather disappointing. As I see it, this is a bad start for our new San Diego County GOP Assemblyman. If one is a Republican in the CA state legislature, it’s hard to get any bill passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature. New Republican State Assemblyman Rocky Chavez was quick to discover the secret to legislative “success” — submit a bill for a new or expanded subsidy Now THAT’s something Democrats can get behind! After all, these clueless donkeys are convinced that our state is AWASH in taxpayer revenue. Doling out more subsidies is the favorite pastime in Sacramento.
Such is the case with
Rocky’s bill above — AB 13. And, after all, don’t we owe our veterans?
Well, yes. And no.
To start with, we have a volunteer military. For most, the pay is good
and the benefits are generous — at least it’s sufficient to fill our
ranks with the needed quality volunteers. Prospective recruits are
fully informed regarding the military’s popular education benefits —
still called “the GI bill” — paid for by the grateful American
taxpayers. Afour year veteran can receive almost $1,500 a month while going to college full-time — for up to 36 months. That’s a pretty darn generous benefit, which they certainly earned.
My concern is that this bill will encourage more people who are NOT California residents to come here to be FURTHER subsidized as an in-state resident.
Each such recipient will cost CA taxpayers many more thousands of dollars per year in education costs (tuition covers a small fraction of the cost per student) — and often results in one more CA resident unable to gain admission to a CA public college. We can’t provide schooling for our EXISTING in-state population — we don’t need to go recruiting for additional subsidized students.
While tuition for our four year colleges and universities is approaching the national average, that can be deceiving. Our UC schools have a remarkable program where most students (especially those who are no longer being subsidized by their parents) with less than an $80,000 income will pay ZERO state tuition.
Moreover, it’s not like we have some sort of labor shortage in California. Currently we
have the third highest unemployment rate in the nation! Educating more
people for jobs might be helpful to the OTHER states who receive many of
today’s California college graduates, but it’s not helpful to the
Golden State.
Rocky, good intentions are not enough. After all, there are an endless
number of causes and “needy” people who “deserve” further funding. But
our state’s finances are in disarray — in large part precisely because
of such muddled thinking. Your top priority should be fiscal prudence
– not trying to find new ways to drain Sacramento’s coffers.
I must say, Rocky Chavez’s chosen course is very disappointing. I had expected better.
2013-04-20 18:00:41
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Sorry you were disappointed. Since the vet would be paying in state tuition for the year it would take to establish in state residency and the marginal cost of an additional student is close to zero there is an economic benefit to CA. There would be further benefit to CA if the vet graduates and then works in CA. 29 other states think this is a good idea. It is my understanding that an individual born and living in CA prior to enlisting that is stationed or homeported outside CA is not considered a CA resident upon release. AB13 fixes this wrong.
Penny wise and Pound foolish comes to mind, not drained coffers.