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Show Thursday, July 15, 2004 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 3 Rotary Scholarship Dinner opens hearts and waMs Springville Rotary members held their first annual Wayne M. Pinder Jr. Scholarship Dinner at the Springville Museum of Art recently. Those attending were treated to a delicious meal catered by Art City Trolley and always entertaining comments by Salt Lake Tribune columnist and former Springville Police Officer Of-ficer Robert Kirby. The Rotary Club thanks the major contributors Rick and Vicky Salisbury, Hal and Brigitte Wing, Jan Pinder, Richard and Judy Rawle and Allen and Marty Young. Countless others have also made donations of time and money over the years to help sustain the scholarship fund. Wayne Pinder started the scholarship in 1995 with the vision that not everyone who would like to attend college is able to do so. The scholarships are not based on grades, merit, athletic or artistic excellence, but on the desire to attend college, and financial finan-cial need. To date, the Springville Rotary Club has awarded 41 Wayne M. Pinder Jr. scholarships to Utah Valley State College for a total cost of over $176,000. Applicants must be graduates of Springville High School (not necessarily this year). Scholarships are available for the fall semester se-mester at UVSC Contact Rich Thorpe, 489-7035, or Gordon Crane, 489-7430, or any members of Rotary for information. afr tmwMtgw M' S. , 4 01. Robert Kirby Instructional costs per student are on the incline in urban districts Urban school districts experiencing experienc-ing declining enrollment spend more instructional dollars per student stu-dent than urban districts with stable sta-ble or increasing enrollment, and the gap has increase over time, according ac-cording to a study by the Taxpayers Taxpay-ers Associatioa In 2003, declining enrollment districts' dis-tricts' instructional expenditure per student were 11.4 higher than instructional in-structional expenditures in stable enrollment districts and 14.7 higher than instructional expenditures expendi-tures in growing districts. This study is a follow-up to a study the association released last February which compared declining, declin-ing, stable and fast growing districts dis-tricts according to certain financial measure, including operational spending per student, property tax rates, pupil-teacher ratios and teacher salaries. The original report did not include instructional costs per student, although this was covered cov-ered by pupil-teacher ration comparisons. com-parisons. The results of these two analyses have implications in the charter school and tuition tax credit debates. de-bates. Opponents of school reform have argued that charter schools and tuition tax credits "drain" funding fund-ing from existing public schools. Existing public schools cannot reduce re-duce costs when enrollment declines, de-clines, opponents argue, because educational costs are fixed Opponents Oppo-nents argue that as enrollment and enrollment-based funding decline, school districts are required to divert di-vert existing funding from instruction instruc-tion to operational overhead. Payson Band . concert Sunday Everyone is invited to enjoy the Payson Band in concert Sunday nights at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Park. Bring a lawn chair or blankets because the benches fill up fast. Wayne Huff is the conductor, and many of the band members are Springville musicians. W Rotate C: Balance Most vehicles. Not valid with any other offer. Springville Store Only. 1 Expires 81504. -lllll" i T Allen Young This "fixed cost" argument, though frequently used, is certainly not applicable to growing districts like Jordan, Davis, Alpine, Nebo and Tooele which are experiencing rapid enrollment growth. Diversion of enrollment from these districts to charter schools and private schools would not impact base enrollment or "fixed" costs but would simply reduce growth rates. According to the association's recent study, the "fixed cost" argument ar-gument does not apply to declining declin-ing enrollment districts either. Many urban school districts have already been experiencing declining declin-ing enrollment-and funding-as enrollment shifts to suburban school districts. The shifting of enrollment en-rollment and funding due to natural nat-ural demographic shifts parallels the funding and enrollments shifts that would occur due to charter schools and tuition tax credits. Currently, as enrollment decreases in one district and increases in-creases in another, roughly $3,200 of state income tax dollars per student are shifted from the declining enrollment district to the growing enrollment district. Urban districts are able to cope with declining enrollments by consolidating con-solidating schools. Declining districts dis-tricts also receive more property taxes per student since property tax revenues do not decrease with enrollment. Additionally, declining enrollment districts are able to dedicate dedi-cate more property tax funding to operations since they do not have the capital needs that growing districts dis-tricts have. Since the shifting of enrollment and funding has not harmed declining declin-ing enrollment districts, in fact per student instructional spending has increased in these districts, observers ob-servers can conclude that in a similar simi-lar shifting of enrollment and funding fund-ing due to charter schools and tuition tu-ition tax credits will not harm declining de-clining enrollment, especially if the tax credits are targeted to students who are not already in private schools. Factory Authorized Dealer & Service Center Chainsaw Repair and Sharpening, Lawn Mover and Small Engine Repair VA Carpenter Seed Company 1030 S. State, Provo 373-3740 - -: - . 4$ W :'5 Brigitte and Jan Wealth and By Jeffrey Herbener The bankruptcy of the activist view of government is in full bloom again, thanks to the John Kerry campaiga For starters, Kerry promised to raise the minimum wage. Even if Kerry is an Economics 101 dropout, one would think that witnessing wit-nessing labor unions lobby for higher minimum wages during his many years in the Senate would have aroused his suspicions suspi-cions about who benefits from such legislation. Since union members are already being paid well above the minimum wage, union officials must recognize what Kerry seems not to see: that raising the minimum wage makes the lowest-wage workers unemployable unem-ployable and, thus reduces their competitiveness with union workers. work-ers. Creating an underclass of low-skilled, low-skilled, unemployable persons is, perhaps, the most socially malignant malig-nant way imaginable to raise union wages. Proponents of activist government govern-ment think they can dismiss the logic of economics because they mistakenly view businesses as a horn of plenty which business executives ex-ecutives exhaust to the exclusion of workers. They seem blissfully unaware that labor receives around 80 percent of national income in-come each year, while profits are a miserly 5 percent to 10 percent. Even complete confiscation of profit and consequent redistribution redistribu-tion to workers would be, at most, a onetime 12.5 percent raise. After that, businesses would shut down and wages July J .'T ' ;l k I 7 'n t Anchorman pg-13 (1:15) A Cinderella Story pg (1:10) The Notebook pg-13 I, Robot PG-13 (12:55) Sleepover pg (1 :00) King Arthur pg-13 (12:45) Spider-Man 2 pg-13 (1:05) 465-8500 Order and print tickets online at www.stadiumcinemas.com No discount passes. Cinemas open all day every day except for 9:00 showings Hal Wing Pinder power must would fall to zero. Try as they might, however, activists cannot deny the logic of economics. Otherwise why limit proposals for raising the minimum mini-mum wage to a paltry $7 an hour? Seventy dollars an hour would be better and $700 better still. Neither would they limit their beneficence to America they could declare a living wage for everyone and conquer world poverty with the stroke of a pen. That they don't advocate such patent nonsense is proof that they cannot deny logic in the end. Not content minimum wage folly, fol-ly, Kerry has also proposed making mak-ing health care a right for all Americans. Now everyone across the political politi-cal spectrum agrees that material benefits such as high wages and adequate food, housing and health care are desirable. Kerry and the proponents of activist government, however, seem to think that such benefits can be legislated into existence. Most of the rest of us recognize recog-nize that they are the product of hard work and the blessings of a free market, economy built by many years of painstaking capital capi-tal accumulation. To the extent that anyone advocates raising living standards to the point where everyone can enjoy the material benefits of modern life, they must advocate unfettered capitalism. Adequate health care for all requires re-quires building hospitals, researching re-searching and producing drugs, making specialized medical equip "The place to watch a movie!" Stadium seating THX sound Exit 252 in Payson, 633 So. 950 West 16 - 22 3:55 7:00 4:05 6:55 6:45 3:55 6:55 4:00 3:35 6:40 3:55 6:45 s f : 1 , ' .J ' ' I ; 4 k ' in- m riinliT-:" , m' , I " IT 111' ''' Rick and Vicky Judy and Richard Rawle remain with ment, and providing arduous training for doctors and nurses. To support those who specialize in the medical professions, others must become more productive in producing foods, shelter, and other oth-er material goods. None of these advances can be legislated into existence they result from working, saving, investing, and producing. Finally, Kerry has made proposals pro-posals for higher education. He promises to give states a onetime one-time $10 billion subsidy for public pub-lic higher education in exchange for capping future tuition increases in-creases to the rate of price inflation. infla-tion. In addition, he promises $300 million a year to encourage women and minorities to study math and science, another $100 million a year to reward schools that graduate more Pell Grant recipients, and another $100 million mil-lion a year for math and science scholarships and bonuses for new teachers who go into math and science. The subsidies of $10 billion up front plus $500 million a year would be funded by raising rais-ing taxes on Americans who earn more than $200,000 a year. Public universities are state-run institutions. If residents in the various var-ious states consider it imperative to limit tuition increases, then states could do it themselves and raise their own taxes to subsidize public higher education. There is no need for Federal government interference unless the real goal of Kerry's proposal is to circumvent circum-vent the wishes of residents in the various states by centralizing power in Washington. Kerry $6. EvENiNqs $6. PriicE: MoiS'Fni $4 bEfoRE 6 p.M., $6 aHer 6 p.M. (ac;es 65 anJ up, AqE 1 1 anJ unJer, $4) NO DKCOJN1S ON NIW MOWS FOR FIKSI 2 WI tKS BOX OITICE OPENS AT 10:50 a.m. DAILY! JULY A Cinderella Stoiy (PCI I Robot (PG-13) King Arthur (PG-13) Spiderman 2 (PG-13) Harry Potter (PG) Anchorman (PG-13) The Terminal (PG-13) Shrek 2 (PG) SPANISH 8 THEATERS iiN iUe K-Mart PIaza off tUf PiiicEMANii Bib ease caII 798-9777 Salisbury the people seems oblivious that taxpayers may think the already enormous public university subsidies forced upon them are enough. To the extent that states are fiscally responsible with tax funds and attempt to run their universities as businesses, tuition increases, like any other price increases, in-creases, result from increased demand. Government grants, scholarships, loan guarantees and so on drive up demand and must either push up tuition or lead to shortages. Kerry's education proposals, as so often happens with activists' schemes, work at cross purposes. They do nothing to solve any real or imagined problem with higher education, but instead serve to transfer wealth and power to Washingtoa Since the government, at best, aggravates and, at worst, creates the social ills it presumes to cure, the proper policy is clear wealth and power must remain with people, peo-ple, not become even more centralized cen-tralized in Washington, D.C To use the coercive power of the state to force people to subsidize what they would not fund voluntarily volun-tarily is a repudiation of the birthright of Americans: the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit pur-suit of happiness. Jeffrey M. Herbener, Ph.D. is chairman of the department of economics at Grove City College. 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