Education spending
Sir, — Not content with demanding an exorbitant increase in the Standard Tertiary Bursary for fulltime students, the University Students’ Association is preparing to oppose cuts in education spending by clos.ing down the universities for a day. The president of the N.Z.U.S.A. claimed recently that just because the Government was running a budget deficit was no excuse for making cuts to its spending. Where does he think the extra money will come from? Taxation would most affect those in higher income brackets; that section of society which I am sure most students aim to reach eventually. No prizes for guessing who would then be the first to complain about their excess tax burden. As New' Zealand’s alleged “intellectuals,” students should have realised that t’ ey cannot forever say: “If cuts have to be made, make them to something which does not affect us.” They should be accepting some of the responsibility for this country’s future. — Yours, etc., S. DAVID, Eastbourne. May 23, 1979.
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