Slice budget to feed state's neediest first
Assemblywoman Nell Soto, D-Ontario, has rightly criticized the governor’s budget. Soto says: "The governor’s budget will do permanent damage to California by knocking the air out of public education." Indeed, the cuts to education are hard to comprehend. Investment of $1 in primary education yields about $10 in revenue to the state when the student later becomes an employed taxpayer. Investment of $1 in the California State University system yields about $3 in revenue to the state after a student graduates, and the return is relatively fast. Political economists have long argued that an educated work force is a productive work force, which means revenue for the government in the form of tax payments and the concomitant ability to provide social services.
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by Ken White, The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.