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...costs by an additional $2,500 for the next academic year, a proportional increase of about a third for in-state students. This is an unsavory solution to an unavoidable problem—the Golden State faces empty coffers and a projected deficit in the tens of billions and must make cuts across the board to stay afloat. However, while some tuition increases might be necessary, the in-state students of the University of California system should be the last to suffer. They are members of tax-paying households in California and should have prioritized access to its public- education...
There is no easy solution to the massive problem the UC system and the State of California faces, but some options are more desirable than others. If the Board of Regents must hike tuition, the main part of this financial burden should be placed on out-of-state students, whose parents are not taxpaying California citizens and who still have the benefit of access to cheap public education in their own states. It may seem unfair for out-of-state students to be penalized for the mistakes of California, but the UC system should primarily serve residents of California, many...
...perspective, this entire lamentable situation was not unforeseeable. California’s dysfunctional political system, which leads to constantly rising spending that is rarely accompanied by tax increases, is the primary culprit. Issues like the tuition hikes in the UC system are the symptoms of poor fiscal practices that must be corrected if the welfare of California residents is to be preserved. The inability to implement taxation that keeps pace with spending is crippling California. If Californians are sincere about avoiding problems like the tuition debacle in the UC system, they must address the root cause of their budgetary woes...
...empowered to liquidate assets and fire management when they see fit, so that individuals engaging in risky behavior will “feel the pain.” The next day, Barclays CEO John S. Varley wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that “incentives and compensation must be better aligned to delivery, must take account of risk, and must be paid out over time...
...Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He gave the Administration 30 days to permit Karen Golinski, a lawyer employed by the Ninth Circuit, to include the woman she married under California law last year on her family health-insurance plan. "Some branch must have the final say on a law's meaning. At least as to laws governing judicial employees, that is entirely our duty and our province. We would not be a co-equal branch of government otherwise." (See a photographic history of the struggle for gay rights...