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Tobacco tax won't fix budget problem
TOPEKA — Leaders of the Board of Regents institutions yesterday made what could be the final plea for restoration of funds for the Margin of Excellence.
Kansan staff writer
By Rod Griffin
But the odds of success didn't look good.
Chancellor Gene A. Budg and Jon Wefald, president of Kansas State University, told the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee that the Margin of Excellence was integral to the economic future of Kan-
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
A proposal by State Sen. Dick Bond, R-Roverland Park, was designed to tax tobacco and use the money to finance the third year of the Margin. But yesterday, Bond told the committee that the estimated $12 million raised by the tax increase would do no more than restore some cuts in the existing budget for higher education.
Bond said that Gov. Mike Hayden had proposed cuts of $20 million in the base budgets of Regents institutions and that any new money would merely offset part of those cuts and would not represent an increase.
But state university officials kept pressing for the Margin.
"The Margin has helped us regain our ability to compete in the recruitment of highly sought faculty." Budig told the committee.
"Faculty in other states have been hearing about the Margin of Excellence," Budig said. "They are increasingly interested in considering Kansas universities because they have heard good things about the Legislature and its commitment."
Wefald the Margin was vital to prevent the state's brightest students from going elsewhere. He said that in 1986 there was great concern about the exodus of the state's valedictorians. He called it a "brain drain."
"Now, two to three years later, I think it is safe to say that the brain brain has been reversed," he said. "We're looking at a brain gain."
Budig said the Margin had improved the overall quality of the state's higher education system.
"That quality must be maintained," he said. "Otherwise it will be lost, and incalculable damage will be done, not just to higher education, but to the economic future of the state."
The Bond bill would add a 5-cent tax to each pack of cigarettes and a 5 percent tax to other tobacco products.
Twenty-three of the 40 senators cosponsored the bill, making supporters confident of Senate passage. However, another tobacco tax bill, designed to restore cuts in social services, probably will compete with the Bond proposal for votes in the House of Representatives.
Neither proposal pleased the Tobacco Institute.
It is unlikely that two tobacco tax bills would become law, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said Wednesday.
"I guess you're going to have a battle between welfare and theMargin of Excellence to see who gets the most tax revenue," Bill Mitchell, a Tobacco Institute representative, told the committee.
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