Senate committee OKs pay raise for governor (as UT hikes tuition)

AUSTIN -- As lawmakers debate over salary increases for teachers, a Senate committee approved a proposal that would give the governor and other elected officials a more than 30 percent raise.

Under the measure, Perry's annual salary would increase from $115,000 to $150,000. The pay for other statewide elected officials would go up from $92,217 to $125,000.

But Gov. Rick Perry said he doesn't want a pay increase.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3080038

UT raises tuition for most campuses

AUSTIN - The University of Texas regents approved another round of tuition increases for most campuses on Thursday and made UT-Austin the first public school in Texas to institute flat-rate tuition for all undergraduates.

The flat-rate plan, which includes all tuition, mandatory fees and other required academic costs, will charge full-time students the same amount no matter how many course hours they take. The Texas Legislature deregulated tuition in 2003. With Thursday's increases, seniors attending UT-Austin this fall who take 14 hours a semester, considered a full load, will pay 45 percent more on average in tuition and fees than they did their freshman year..........

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3079513

Only the loosest of connections here, but in a nod to the irony gods...

The rich own the poor.

It's the PWN3D society. (That's "owned" for those who don't do leetspeak.)

This is what the people want, apparently, so no one has the right to complain except those of us who worked our asses off to prevent this.