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the skinny on property tax
This week we are studying conference committee reports on property tax relief. I am pleasantly surprised of the outcome.
What to like: 
-removes school operating expenses on your home (about 2/3)
-requires 2/3 vote of the legislature to add this tax back on your home
-reduces sales tax on food to 3 cents
-gives 2 sales tax holidays (on everything) after Thanksgiving
What to not like:
-leaves local & school bond property taxes on your home
-taxes on cars and commercial property remain
-raises sales tax by 1 cent
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) is a key participant on the conference committee. If you read my bleak postings during the property tax debate, you’ll see that I did not expect this outcome, so I stand corrected.
June 1st, 2006 at 4:47 am
thank you for the “no spin”
June 1st, 2006 at 4:47 am
thank you for the “no spin”
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:49 pm
No spin????? You’ve got to be kidding!
Schools must be funded. Public schools need more money, not less.
All this bill will do is reward “fat” school districts and penalize those which are already doing their best to be efficient and effective in spending.
It also puts funding decisions in the hands of state politicians, who make decisions based on lots of factors, but the bests interests of our state’s children is not one of them (as is obvious by this legislation).
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:49 pm
No spin????? You’ve got to be kidding!
Schools must be funded. Public schools need more money, not less.
All this bill will do is reward “fat” school districts and penalize those which are already doing their best to be efficient and effective in spending.
It also puts funding decisions in the hands of state politicians, who make decisions based on lots of factors, but the bests interests of our state’s children is not one of them (as is obvious by this legislation).
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
We are spenindg over 10,000 per student per year and that’s not enough?
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
We are spenindg over 10,000 per student per year and that’s not enough?