House Bill 1 has passes the House with a 98-49 vote, and now it is turned over to the Texas Senate. The Bill is for the Texas State budget fiscal year of 2012-2013. The bill reduces the budget by is $23 billion from last year's budget. According to the bill, many cuts are being made to public education! It also “cuts state funding for colleges and universities by more than 10 percent”, which is bad news for students like you and I (Embry). I think that the Senate should vote against this bill and revise it, so that more money is allocated to public education. The state of Texas is one of the fastest growing states in population, and with more people come more students. Texas schools rank close to last, if not last, in performance compared to the rest of the states. It does not seem logical to cut the budget for education, when it obviously needs more money! The Bill is not going to increase taxes to raise money that is needed for education and other social services. Governor Rick Perry says “you cannot tax or spend your way to prosperity, and Texans expect their elected leaders to govern under that truth when it comes to taxpayer dollars”. Part of that is true, but I think that raising taxes would be the only logical thing to do, to make up for money that is required to run the education system and social services. They should let themselves and tax payers hold the burden of their mistakes, not Texan students. Hopefully the Texas Senate will come to their senses and change the bill to allocate the appropriate amount of money toward public education.
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