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Show -- 1 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Friday. Past Two Higher ed By wiDD staffer programs even though the state can't afford to lose any more. Jennifer Gully Chronicle Administration Reporter education receives 35 percent of the approximately the in tax fund, so if general money the referendum were passed, the Higher Higher education will take the largest budget cuts if Utahns diminish the state's monetary resources by passing November's state's nine colleges and universities would collectively suffer a loss of approximately $35 million, Hatch director of the state's planning and budget. "They would have a said. Public education would not be affected by the removal of the sales tax because it is funded from the uniform school fund, which is fed by personal income and corporate If the referendum passes, the Although social services and referendum to eliminate sales tax on edible food, officials said Thursday. "Higher education is by far the hardest hit," said Dale Hatch, substantial hit" state's general tax fund would lose the approximately $110 million generated by the 6 percent 6.25 percent in areas serviced by UTA sales tax on food. State government would lose about $90 million and local government about $20 million. Both Gov. Norm Bangerter and Lt. Gov. Val Oveson are against the referendum and said rather than increase other taxes to compensate for the lost revenues, they would cut taxes. . corrections are also funded from the general tax fund, higher education will face the biggest cuts because it is the "biggest entity" receiving money from the general tax fund and it will proportionately lose the most money, said Anthony Morgan, U. vice president for budget and planning. For the University of Utah, the loss in state revenues translates into a loss of $14 to $15 million, Morgan said. Given the Legislature's difficulty in WHERE DO THE STEP-CHILDR- iff tax revoked, officials say education may be forced to cut programs, limit enrollment and reduce the faculty and staff that support the higher enrollment funding programs and competitive faculty and staff salary levels for higher education this year, higher eduction cannot take a $35 million cut in the future, said Sen. Richard figures, Morgan said. In addition, the Utah Board of Regents may decide to increase tuition to offset the loss of revenue, he added. "Tuition is the most obvious monetary! support in the regents' control.' Even if higher education were able to generate additional funds by eliminating programs and increasing tuition, the system would still be unable to offer faculty larger of Car ling, Lake, the legislative higher education joint appropriation subcommittee. He said higher education has been forced to cut classes, enrollment, and R-S- alt an has been unable to raise faculty salaries to the level of those at comparative institutions across the country. "It would be very difficult for higher education to take that kind of compensation packages, Hatch said. "If that passed, it will be difficult to provide, at least from the state, any compensation increase," he said. cut and maintain the quality,'' Carling said. Although the exact impact of the lost food sales tax cannot be determined until the revenue projections for 1992 are known, Although the referendum's proponents maintain cuts in programs could be avoided if the state raised other taxes, such as higher education will receive quite a blow, Hatch said. "Anyway you look at it it's going to affect what higher education is doing." If the referendum is passed and the . personal income and corporate taxes, used existing surpluses, state is unable to construct . alternative methods to feed money into the general tax fund, higher and funds, such internally actions wouldn't help the situation, Hatch said. He said surpluses have generally" from page one was a nation of culture, one of the intellectual leaders of the world," he Take Jeffrey Rosenfeld's course, "Utah Households: Social Space and Living Space in Transition' and find out how recent social and demographic trends have altered the d traditional space called "home". Rosenfeld is a New two-credit-ho- ur said. Germany also poses a threat because it isn't entirely controlled by benevolent, enlightened government leaders, he said. The U.S. government is deceiving itself in its belief a unified Germany will give the United States a strong political influence in Eastern Europe, York-base- sociologist who writes frequently on intergenerational relationships. he said. With the political and Register now through TRS or at the Annex Building for Sociology 395R-- 3 or 39R-- 3 9noncredit, fee $83 ) Class meets 1:00-5:0- 0 p.m. 3 in BEH S 102. ; July : the state expects that trend to continue in the future. However, excess money in the uniform school fund will not solve the problem of lost revenue in the general tax fund because the constitution states that surplus money from the uniform school fund cannot be transferred to the general tax fund, he explained. The referendum was placed on the statewide Nov. 6 ballot last week after its proponents gathered 69,229 signatures in support of repealing the tax. Before a citizen-drafte- question is d placed on the ballot, the collected signatures must equal at least 10 percent of the number of people who voted the in most gubernatorial election. recent Utahns voted on a similar initiative in 1980 but defeated the ballot proposal by petition-supporte- d a 55 percent margin. the issue is not Although applicable for five states, 27 states . exempt food from their state's sales - tax and 19 states ood. tx "The Cold War has not come to an end. The bureaucracy in Eastern Europe is still handled by the communists. Communism has changed its name, but it's still the angel of death." However, Korff said the U.S. government must support Gorbachev in his leadership because he may be replaced someone by reactionary. 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