Comments on: Letter to the Editor: Is the Student Body Willing to Tax Themselves More to Preserve Staffing for Student Services? http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/11/16/sfac-is-the-student-body-willing-to-tax-themselves-more-to-preserve-staffing-for-student-services/ A Student-Run Newspaper Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/11/16/sfac-is-the-student-body-willing-to-tax-themselves-more-to-preserve-staffing-for-student-services/comment-page-1/#comment-586 James Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:09:00 +0000 http://www.cityonahillpress.com/?p=20242#comment-586 Sorry but no. I am not willing to tax myself for programs that I have not and will not benefit from. If I can make the choice to keep my tuition down then I will. I understand that people want their cultural arts centers or “social and cultural activities, resources, and programs;” to quote measure 7 but I have little interest and do not want to pay for it. I am willing to fund “services related to the physical and psychological health and well-being of students” as well as career support but if I know my fellow students well enough, it will never be a this or that kind of situation. They will want all of it.

And who is going to decide where the funding goes? SFAC? Yeah I like a few of the people on the board but most will want to make it so everyone gets a piece of the pie. Measures like measure 7 cover so many areas that it really doesn’t tell us what programs we care about most. It just says that we care about some programs. Make a measure that is seperate for each area of student activities and that will show where students care. or wait…will it?

No it wont because the only thing that stops a measure from passing is the threshold that students must reach for it to be considered. There are almost no groups that would organize against something and I for one do not want to put a target on my back for those groups. voting no just allows the measure to get that much closer to passing.

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