Star says No to college tuition tax

by David Safier

We understand the financial straits facing the state. But taking students' money from universities demonstrates the backward tendencies of lawmakers who refuse to accept that Arizona can't grow economically by starving its public educational system.

I was in college in California when Reagan was governor. He hated the University of California system. It was part anti-intellectualism, part dislike of all those liberal folks who made his life difficult. So the "starve the educational beast" attitude from conservatives is nothing new.

Let's call it what it is: Taxation Without Education. We're not tea drinkers here and we don't have harbors, but we need a Tucson Tea Party of some kind to let these right wingers know that we're ready to take our country back.