College Help Tax Case Study
The bill I’m proposing would involve using Texas public funding to support two-year colleges and four-year universities through a 10% tax increase program each year called The College Help Tax. College tuition, today is up to $7,000 a semester and continues to raise every year. Through this tax program, it would be of assistance for all Texas residents to use to attend college. There would be no restrictions so every Texas citizen would be able to receive a college degree without the massive price tag.
With any bill that goes into the Texas legislative system has a positive and a negative side. I’ll be telling you about these positions and how it helps and affects the students and citizens of Texas. Decreasing Texas college tuition within the next four years we have to take a closer look at the …show more content…
With these budget cuts, The University of Texas-Austin have been forced to increase their tuition by 522%. This is happening all over Texas universities, like The University of Texas - Dallas the average tuition and fees jumped from $4,220 a year to $5,276, a 25% in one semester. With my bill, we would start in January 2018 lowering college tuition with a 10% decrease. This would help lower tuition from $7,000 to $6,300, a $700 dollar reduction. Continuing in 2019 with a 20% tax, this would lower the cost of college tuition from $6,300 to $5,040, a $1,260 difference in 2020 with a 30% tax this would help to lower tuition to $3,528 dollars a semester a $3,472 decrease. Finally by, 2021 with a 40% decrease this would lower Texas tuition to $2,116.80 a $4,883.20 decrease. Some of the negative aspects of my bill with any public funding we have to think how is this going to affect the students and citizens. With my bill proposal, I’m asking for Texas residents to pay more taxes into a higher education program. With that comes paying higher taxes. We look at European universities that have the same tax program . We
With any bill that goes into the Texas legislative system has a positive and a negative side. I’ll be telling you about these positions and how it helps and affects the students and citizens of Texas. Decreasing Texas college tuition within the next four years we have to take a closer look at the …show more content…
With these budget cuts, The University of Texas-Austin have been forced to increase their tuition by 522%. This is happening all over Texas universities, like The University of Texas - Dallas the average tuition and fees jumped from $4,220 a year to $5,276, a 25% in one semester. With my bill, we would start in January 2018 lowering college tuition with a 10% decrease. This would help lower tuition from $7,000 to $6,300, a $700 dollar reduction. Continuing in 2019 with a 20% tax, this would lower the cost of college tuition from $6,300 to $5,040, a $1,260 difference in 2020 with a 30% tax this would help to lower tuition to $3,528 dollars a semester a $3,472 decrease. Finally by, 2021 with a 40% decrease this would lower Texas tuition to $2,116.80 a $4,883.20 decrease. Some of the negative aspects of my bill with any public funding we have to think how is this going to affect the students and citizens. With my bill proposal, I’m asking for Texas residents to pay more taxes into a higher education program. With that comes paying higher taxes. We look at European universities that have the same tax program . We