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Article: Sales tax provides property tax relief
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2009
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As a former school board member (eight years) and president (two
years) in Winnebago School District 323, I have always made
education funding reform one of my highest priorities. As a State
Representative for the past seven years it has been my most sincere
effort.
Taking the burden off of property taxes and placing some on the
sales tax and some on the state income tax has been the remedy
suggested by every blue ribbon panel, committee discussion, bills
pending in both the House and Senate and nearly every evaluation of
the situation undertaken over the past several decades. We need no
more studies. In the end, they all reach the same conclusion: take
some of the burden off of property ...