Many good reasons to vote ‘NO’ for a community college

By Paul Goeltz, Victor

For one, home owners are taxed enough, this money should come from the state or feds. Colleges, both 4 year and 2 year, are oversold and most come out working a $10/hour job at McDonald’s. All this will do is force more homeowners out of the state. Please help me understand what benefit it will help, the poor which cannot afford to go? And what benefit does it help many homeowners?

• Excellent financial investment. please this is over inflated and just plan hog wash, in light of what is going on now. How is another $50 a year in taxes helping any of us? Many of us are retired and on fixed income! I went to a junior college, then on to a 4 year college, all paid for by me. This is just a ploy to fund a failing school.

• Stimulate local business growth. With what, more $10 hr jobs?

• Accessibility for underserved students.

• Profitable for students, taxpayers, society. https://college-education.procon.org please the nation is failed empire, so are many schools. Annual wages for the bottom 25th percentile of college graduates are less than the median wages earned by a typical worker with a high school diploma, according to a 2014 study by the New York Fed. “While we can’t be sure that the wages of this group wouldn’t have been lower if they had never gone to college, this pattern strongly suggests that the economic benefit of a college education is relatively small for at least a quarter of those graduating with a bachelor’s degree,” economists Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz wrote in the study.” https://www.usnews.com/…/2019-06-…/is-college-worth-the-cost

• Lower unemployment rates. Another myth, most grads end up with $10-15/hour job if that and working at Amazon or Burger King.

• Lifelong learning opportunities. Are you saying if we vote for this I can go to school for free? What good does learning do for me? Many of the classes I want are not even available in the state of Montana. Just like most public projects, you promise the world but the taxpayer gets zero.

• The right thing to do. Wrong. The right thing to do is go to school, go to a junior college, then work like many of us did and pay your way to a 4 year college.

And to the Ravalli County Workforce Alliance, Ravalli County Economic Development Authority, Wendy Campbell, Victoria “Tory” Clark, Julie Foster, John Grant, Steve Grover, Terri Johanson, Jennifer Johnson, Candy Lubansky, Susan Penfield, John Schneeberger, Dixie Stark, R. D. Walsh: feel free to contact me and change my mind.