[Vision2020] Fwd: Abolish Property Taxes Now!

[Andreas Schou]

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From: Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: Abolish Property Taxes Now!
To: Vision202 at moscow.com


Is there any particular reason that schools are funded (unequally) by
property taxes and not equitably funded out of the state coffers?
Forcing the public schools to go to the voters every few years, hat in
hand, to beg for money seems both unseemly and inefficient. Further,
property tax levies are a profoundly regressive tax -- poorer areas
with lower property values are required to levy funds more frequently,
and in larger amounts (percentage-wise) than rich areas. Can anyone
think of any compelling public policy reason that this occurs?

-- ACS