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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

UC Tuition: His Way or the Conway?

The photo shows Assembly Speaker John Pérez talking to GOP minority leader Connie Conway.  Given the excerpt below from today’s online San Francisco Chronicle, let’s hope he is being super-persuasive.
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Excerpt:

California students from middle-income families would receive massive breaks on tuition and fees at the state's colleges and universities under legislation Assembly Speaker John Pérez plans to introduce today at the Capitol.  Under the plan, undergraduate students from families with household income of less than $150,000 would have their tuition and fees cut by two-thirds, bringing the cost below what it was nearly a decade ago.  It would amount to a $4,000 annual savings for California State University students and just over $8,100 for students attending the University of California and would take effect as soon as this fall. Both new students and current students would be eligible…

The speaker's office estimates the program would cost the state about $1 billion per year, which would be raised by eliminating a corporate tax break that was approved in 2009 as part of budget negotiations between Democrats and Republicans. That tax break allows corporations to choose the cheaper of two formulas for calculating the taxes they owe…

Any change in the tax requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, which means at least two Republicans in each house must agree…


Actually, we have some audio of what Pérez is saying to Conway:

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