Texas Legislatures Need to Seek Cleaner Air
Let me start off by saying that this was a good editorial. I completely agree with this classmate of mine. She wrote this editorial on a bill that is currently still in the House. A Republican Senator from Waco proposed a bill that would call for tighter regulations and modifications of air impacting technologies. If the bill is passed, it will result in cleaner air for Texas.
She did a wonderful job in expressing her own opinion about this bill. She gave us an example of a city where the air was really polluted. She urges the people to get this passed. Not only for us and our health, but for our wonderful state of Texas and the future generations to come. I would not change a thing about this editorial. She did a marvelous job in my book. I enjoyed reading your blog.
Feel free to go check it out!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tax Exemptions?!
I am pretty sure that we can all agree, that being a college student does not come cheap! We have to pay for the classes we take and the gas to get to class each and every day. Last but not least, we have to pay for the books we need that provide us wth the information we need for each of our classes.
On November 10, 2008 HB 20 was filed with the Texas Legislature relating to the exemption of textbooks for university and college courses from the sales tax. What college student would not want this?! Come on now, times are hard. Especially to be a young college student working to put yourself through school. You can already expect to pay a pretty good amount of money for just one book. One can only imagine if you have to buy four and five books at a time. That is a large sum of money. Times have changed. We are currently in a recession! Do we seriously need more to pay for than what we can bear?! I do not think so. Using me as an example, this semester I enrolled in four core classes. My bill was $796.00. My math book alone was more than $100. I had to buy two books for my English class which were about $100 together. My government book was $70 and lucky me my last book was only $7. So altogether, I spent about $300 alone just on my books, and that is WITHOUT taxes!
By passing this bill, we would be able to save a percentage of our money. Even if it isn't going to be alot, every penny counts. We do have other expenses to pay for as well. This bill is definately one we shoud work on getting passed. Especially at the rate things are going, college students could use a little break. Not having any sales tax on our books, would be a great start. Its the right thing to do. All in favor..........SAY I!!
Texas Legislature
On November 10, 2008 HB 20 was filed with the Texas Legislature relating to the exemption of textbooks for university and college courses from the sales tax. What college student would not want this?! Come on now, times are hard. Especially to be a young college student working to put yourself through school. You can already expect to pay a pretty good amount of money for just one book. One can only imagine if you have to buy four and five books at a time. That is a large sum of money. Times have changed. We are currently in a recession! Do we seriously need more to pay for than what we can bear?! I do not think so. Using me as an example, this semester I enrolled in four core classes. My bill was $796.00. My math book alone was more than $100. I had to buy two books for my English class which were about $100 together. My government book was $70 and lucky me my last book was only $7. So altogether, I spent about $300 alone just on my books, and that is WITHOUT taxes!
By passing this bill, we would be able to save a percentage of our money. Even if it isn't going to be alot, every penny counts. We do have other expenses to pay for as well. This bill is definately one we shoud work on getting passed. Especially at the rate things are going, college students could use a little break. Not having any sales tax on our books, would be a great start. Its the right thing to do. All in favor..........SAY I!!
Texas Legislature
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