Liberal economic policies failed The Daily
Bruin’s Jan. 8 editorial “Bush’s plan costs more
than it’s worth” is so typical of college student news
today. Most of you were young kids during the Reagan years, and
only parrot what your leftist professors have told you. The Reagan
tax cuts created the greatest economic expansion in history, and
the icon of the left, John F. Kennedy, made the observation many
times that tax cuts produce more income for the government in
increased tax revenues. Reagan’s tax cuts paved the way for
the boom in the ’90s as well. Also, tax cuts (i.e., returning
money you earned to you) do not cost the government a cent unless
you believe that your income, a priori, belongs to the government.
In addition, did you know that about $20 billion of the supposed
$35 billion deficit projected for California in 2003 is made of
scheduled increases in funding? In other words, if we just
maintained the same funding as in 2002, the deficit would only be
about $15 billion. For those of you who buy into the progressive
point of view, just look at the state of California today. Do you
like what you see? If not, you have Democratic policies and
politicians to blame since they have had control for four years
now. Face it, liberal social and economic policies are utter
failures. Unfortunately, your tenured professors will never admit
the truth. John Langstaff Whittier
Parking services should shape up Number five on
my New Year’s resolution list: don’t get any more
parking tickets. Not even a day into winter quarter ““ the
Sunday before ““ did a UCLA Transportation Services officer
threaten to issue me a citation and wrongly tow my car. My
boyfriend and I had gone to the Wooden Center to play racquetball.
I paid the meter $1.75 for 56 minutes. We came back only 45 minutes
later to find my car blocked in by the parking enforcement
officer’s car, already with a tow truck there. My car was
being towed for tickets I had already paid. I explained, pleaded,
cursed, and swore up and down that I paid all of those tickets, but
only after police intervention and adjudication was the truth
finally acknowledged and the situation resolved. Perhaps the
Transportation Services Office should make a New Year’s
resolution: stop screwing up. Kristina Wong Fourth-year,
Political science