Community colleges are a wonderful option for people.
But should the fees and governance of them be determined by ballot box?
Vote no.
The SF Chronicle is against it:
With the state facing a project deficit of $14 billion next year, this might seem like the worst possible time to propose a ballot measure that would commit an extra $900 million to community colleges over three years.
But even if times were flush, the budgeting-by-formula proposed in Proposition 92 would be a bad idea. This is the type of auto-spending that keeps the state budget rising in the good years and brings excruciating decisions when revenues get lean.
The Los Angeles Times agrees:
Proposition 92 promises California's community colleges a stable funding source while lowering student fees. What could be wrong with that?
A lot. Community colleges certainly need more money, but Proposition 92 would lock the state into spending hundreds of millions of additional dollars that it doesn't have. Lawmakers would have no choice but to rob other higher education programs to meet the new spending commitment. This initiative represents the worst form of ballot-box budgeting, and voters should reject it.
Vote no on proposition 92. It is time to stop ballot box budgeting.
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