The Unbelievable Greed Of The Educational Bureaucracy
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
When Nevada Legislators passed the bill earlier this session to increase room rate taxes in Clark and Washoe Counties – it was the Nevada teachers’ union who were involved in making that happen. When Nevada Legislators add to that tax burden in probably several weeks, it will again be the insatiable appetite for educational funding that will be a primary reason.
On May 4th when the budget director went before the joint money committees of the Nevada Legislature to update them on the current status of planning to deal with the plummeting state revenue projections, it was clearly noted that education was not on the table for any further planned reductions.
When the joint money committees of the Nevada Legislature met later in the day to announce their plans to reduce government employees (including teachers) by only 4 percent (instead of the 6 percent that was recommended by the Governor) it was education funding and the ratio required to achieve full federal stimulus acquisition that prompted the level to be what it was determined to be.
Without a doubt there has been no shortage of effort put into finding resources to keep education as whole as possible through what appears to the rest of the world as being a fairly serious downturn in the economy.
As a signal of the education community’s grateful appreciation, we read here the lambasting of the University Chancellor for this legislative leader’s public pronouncement of not supporting the creation of a new tax.
It’s pretty obvious that those in the ivory towers of education don’t seem to believe that the challenges of the private sector really matter when it comes to the required obligations we should have to providing more for their benefits.
The state’s unemployment rate, a symbol for some (non-education oriented folks) that business enterprises are having a hard time in making ends meet, requiring them to close or reduce work forces. On the other hand, according to the University Chancellor, that should be a dead give-away that we need to increase business taxes in order to more fully fund the bureaucratic requirements of Nevada’s educational system (especially those of the University System).
We find it noteworthy that when the private sector speaks up in defense of maintaining the resources that they acquire through enterprise, the champions of government bureaucracy (especially those related to education) rant about the “greedy” business community (those involved in providing jobs, services and goods).
As we continue to witness the challenge of dealing with an inability for the private sector to provide more for those receiving funds from the state’s general fund – the solution in the minds of those who represent the University System is simply more and new taxes. How dare anyone think otherwise…
When Nevada Legislators passed the bill earlier this session to increase room rate taxes in Clark and Washoe Counties – it was the Nevada teachers’ union who were involved in making that happen. When Nevada Legislators add to that tax burden in probably several weeks, it will again be the insatiable appetite for educational funding that will be a primary reason.
On May 4th when the budget director went before the joint money committees of the Nevada Legislature to update them on the current status of planning to deal with the plummeting state revenue projections, it was clearly noted that education was not on the table for any further planned reductions.
When the joint money committees of the Nevada Legislature met later in the day to announce their plans to reduce government employees (including teachers) by only 4 percent (instead of the 6 percent that was recommended by the Governor) it was education funding and the ratio required to achieve full federal stimulus acquisition that prompted the level to be what it was determined to be.
Without a doubt there has been no shortage of effort put into finding resources to keep education as whole as possible through what appears to the rest of the world as being a fairly serious downturn in the economy.
As a signal of the education community’s grateful appreciation, we read here the lambasting of the University Chancellor for this legislative leader’s public pronouncement of not supporting the creation of a new tax.
It’s pretty obvious that those in the ivory towers of education don’t seem to believe that the challenges of the private sector really matter when it comes to the required obligations we should have to providing more for their benefits.
The state’s unemployment rate, a symbol for some (non-education oriented folks) that business enterprises are having a hard time in making ends meet, requiring them to close or reduce work forces. On the other hand, according to the University Chancellor, that should be a dead give-away that we need to increase business taxes in order to more fully fund the bureaucratic requirements of Nevada’s educational system (especially those of the University System).
We find it noteworthy that when the private sector speaks up in defense of maintaining the resources that they acquire through enterprise, the champions of government bureaucracy (especially those related to education) rant about the “greedy” business community (those involved in providing jobs, services and goods).
As we continue to witness the challenge of dealing with an inability for the private sector to provide more for those receiving funds from the state’s general fund – the solution in the minds of those who represent the University System is simply more and new taxes. How dare anyone think otherwise…
Posted by Doug Busselman at 5/6/2009 7:26 AM 
Categories: Nevada Educational Funding
Tags: Nevada University Funding Nevada Budgets
Categories: Nevada Educational Funding
Tags: Nevada University Funding Nevada Budgets
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