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Article: Time to eliminate, not reduce, property taxes State Sen. Mike Folmer Lebanon
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- June 5, 2007
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Editor, New Era:
On May 15, voters throttled Act 1, the governor's ballyhooed plan
to fulfill his promise to reduce property taxes. Just seven of
Pennsylvania's 501 school districts opted in to the "Taxpayer Relief
Act," which shifts some of the burden of paying for public education
away from property taxes to the earned-income tax.
Act 1 followed two other attempts to reduce property taxes. Act 50
of 1998, which would also have relied upon the earned-income tax in
place of property taxes, saw only four school districts opting to
participate. Act 72 of 2004, passed in conjunction with the
governor's gambling initiative, was approved by 118 school districts;
none of which ...