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Gordon Fox, House Majority Leader in Rhode Island, D-Providence, is sponsoring legislation aimed at assessing a "student user fee" for private colleges in Rhode Island. This fee, the brainchild of Providence Mayor David Cicilline, would be distributed to the "host communities" for the students use of municipal services.
What the leaders of this state do not realize is that the students that go to the private colleges and universities are economic powerhouses in the state. All students do is spend, spend, spend. They order pizza, buy goods from local convenience stores, they shop at grocery stores, they get coffee, they buy alcohol, you name it they spend money on it. Roger Williams University alone contributes a large sum of money to the RIPTA to give every freshman student a bus pass.
And what about those students who rent houses? They are paying property taxes through their rent, why should they pay more. And the public schools? URI, RIC, CCRI wouldn't have to pay this $300 annual fee. Sorry Cicilline but not every URI student lives in RI.
This bill also neglects to mention anything about private high schools. These high schools have people coming from out of state, why aren't they being taxed?
These students, who do not live in the state, do not get a chance to vote for a representative in the House or the Senate or for the Mayor or for the Governor. Why should they be taxed, by these officials, when they do not have representation within any branch of the Rhode Island government.
No Taxation Without Representation - the very reason our founding father's fought for our freedom.
King George Cicilline - leave us kids alone, stop spending outrageous amounts of money and putting the city into debt. Stop your police officers from driving around the state in police vehicles, using taxpayer gas. Be responsible, for our sake.
my question is, what about the families who barely make the tuition so that they can send their kid to a decent college??? do you actually think they'll be able to afford another $300 on top of that?
ReplyDeletethink about it for a minute, this would be like a Mainer paying property taxes in RI when they have never even lived there!!!!!!
tell you what, this state is so broke and you think you need to find extra money to fill the holes, then pay more of the percentage for you benefits gordon fox. raise the minimum 10% requirement from legislators. or better yet, stop spending!
Don't forget, if this goes through, you will see this happening all over the country. Gordon Fox is opening up the flood gates for every state, community, and municipality in the country to tax college students!
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ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous. Parents are just barely surviving with lines of credit, student loans and private loans to send their sons and daughters for the education they need today just to sparsely make it in today's world. Taxation without representation is against all that we believe in. What do you expect Mr. Cicilline and others come from money. Three hundred dollars is like pennies to them. Chump change. My heart goes out to the students and parents. There must be a way to stop this insanity. It's those democrats. They better watch out election time is right around the corner and they from local, state, and Federal are getting bad report cards. It is certainly time to fire them all.
Yet another tax which will create a slippery slope on which they can add even more taxes, such as increasing the amount of this tax in future years, taxing students at private high schools, etc. Yet the bozos on Smith Hill won't address real reforms to cut spending! Enough. These people need to be reminded that we are not going to take it anymore. Make sure you come to the Gaspee Day Tea Party at the State House on June 10th from 4-6 to demand that they cut spending INSTEAD of creating burdensome taxes. Bring your (plastic) pitchforks! www.riteaparty.com
ReplyDeleteThey are really grasping at straws now! To tax our students who are on the path of becoming productive, educated, energetic, useful citizens rather than cut entitlements is lunacy!!
ReplyDeleteBe sure to be at the State House on June 10th from 4-6PM to voice your concern!!
These officials keep spending and when they realize that they are in a huge deficit they go after the weakest members of RI, the people that can't vote. This is wrong.
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