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> As it is, poorer areas have less money for schools when it could be pooled statewide and distributed fairly instead. Property-tax funded schools don't save us
by twblalock 10y ago
> As it is, poorer areas have less money for schools when it could be pooled statewide and distributed fairly instead. Property-tax funded schools don't save us from this underfunding, and neither will other district-based taxation.
I'm very much in favor of redistributing school funding, but that's not a tax decision -- it's a spending decision. If something like that ever happens, the money is likely to come from property taxes, as it currently does -- it will just be distributed in a different way.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoSpending decisions affect taxes, including property taxes. In my mind, part of the way to at least lessen the dependence on property taxes (or lower the taxes in general) would be to also redistribute the money on a larger scale. Otherwise, if you get rid of property taxes or lower them to a point, a few areas will likely become underfunded (or more so), assuming that property taxes are generally lower in places with lower incomes. I do figure you are correct, that at least a portion of it will always come from property taxes.