Informative Essay: The College Help Tax

With my bill The College Help Tax, there is both a negative and positive sides for Texas students and residents. Some of the positive accept of my bill with that 10 % increase every year this would help to lower college tuition for anyone who wanted to attend college. We have to look at the universities themselves and why the tuition keeps getting higher, for example, The University of Texas-Austin. In the 1980’s the state of Texas supported nearly half of the university's budget as of today this is another story the state of Texas now only supports 12% of the universities funding for higher education. Most universities look for funding or backing to help The University of Texas does have oil and mineral land in West Texas this helps somewhat,

Since 2003 Texas has cut $173 million from higher education. With college being so expensive for Texas residents to attend college in the 2012 enrollment in Texas colleges and universities totaled 1,628,583, in 2011 there was 28,996 increase in the 38 public universities this increased by 8,375 students to 600,108 students. Thirty-six universities reported enrollment increases in The state's public community college districts in two-year degree programs, reported in 2012 enrollments totaling 732,112 students, a decrease of 20,874 over fall 2011 due to financial or other reasons. With more Texas residents wanting to attend, we see more colleges as the University of Texas at Austin placing a cap starting in 2012 are now required to offer admissions to applicants of the number needed to fill the 75% of enrollment capacity for full-time resident undergraduate because of the growing tuition numbers, which means less Texas residents get to attend college either due to financial