When the bus costs so much, is it public education?

If we look back into 1900s, the world has changed incredibly. Laptops and iTouches are so common that every owns it now, but who would expect such things back in 1900s? Where do these come from? Natural resources? Partially, yes, but these didn't just pop up from natural resources. Mainly, all the development was achieved through human resources. Now, it comes to the question, "how do we get human resources?" It is not hard to point out that "education" is one of the most important fact.

The governments take care of a lot of things including public services such as education. All of these are done by the government budget, which means the taxes payed by people. The article , "When the bus costs so much, is it public education?" written by Star-Telegram editorial group, criticizes the idea of cutting the budget by putting burden on families who have children. $370 per year may look high or low. But if a family has 3 kids, that is already one grand for the bus per year. Of course, kids do not go to school for one year, which means it's going to go up to ten thousand dollars. It seems like it's not free public education anymore to me. I mean, I payed less than that for my private school back in Korea, which was mostly covered by a company. This problem definitely affects the low income families especially.

The writer gently points out that the voters against the tax raise should think again about who gets affected by the budget cut. He infers that the voters should have supported tax increase. However, I do not agree with his idea of raising tax just for this. Instead of raising taxes, the government should find another way to save some coins, such as reducing the pay for the administration. Some people argued that the administration eats up half of the incoming revenue, and James Veitenheimer gets payed $75000 more per year than the Texas Governor. And they are saying they are short on money so they need to make low income family's life harder. I am so sure that there is another way to reduce the budget.

It seems like the writer tries to convince the people against tax raise by touching the issue of public service, education. Despite the fact that I agree with the idea of not cutting the budget for education, I do not agree with his idea of raising tax.