Will ACC be the redeemer for HCISD? When will we realize we can’t afford all this? The federal net interest per year is over $222 billion. If spending continues at the current rate, net interest payments will be over $900 billion annually by 2020! We can’t build more government forever. At the federal level, only 44 cents out of every dollar being spent today is covered by taxes. The 56 cents remaining is borrowed, mostly from foreign sovereign governments. This is the biggest threat to national security we have today: Cumulative Debt.
I see no reason whatsoever to mortgage our student’s future any further. They need “skin in the game.” When I had to pay for my college, I certainly appreciated it more. Our socialization of public education has not worked so why continue this model for higher education? What makes anyone think we have a further obligation to pay for adult’s higher education over what our state taxes already pay now? When my daughter goes to college next year, 30% of her tuition is set aside for economically disadvantage students. At least tuition is temporary. An ACC tax would be IRREVOCABLE and forever.
Austin has never shown any interest in Hays County. In fact, they’ve fought everything we do. What ACC really wants is our $4B growing property tax base. They know once the ACC vote passes, we’ve given up control of our higher education destiny in Hays CISD because Austin’s ACC students alone can out vote us. In fact, Austin can outvote us 14:1. Look at NOACCTAX.com and learn more.
Let ACC annex the willing and let’s watch their performance. If ACC can demonstrate how they’ve spent new tax dollars derived from these recent and forthcoming annexations wisely on the annexed area’s students, and these students have gained employment or graduated, then I’ll reconsider supporting them in a future election. They say they can do it. Prove it!
Too much is at stake to support them now in an irrevocable election. ACC needs to prove they really are the redeemer.
Education is Everybody’s Business!
Bryce Bales
Manchaca
