A tax increase is much easier to support if you can see the results. With additional funding provided to our districts, they will have the opportunity to invest more into the education of our students. In closing, I would like to say that our businesses chose to locate and remain in rural Pennsylvania. If we continue to base the funding in our public school system on local property taxes, we will tax rural Pennsylvania into extinction. Elizabeth Tallichet is the League of Women Voters' Legislative and Education Chair for Centre County.
Tax reform is a necessary corollary to equitable funding of public education in Pennsylvania.
We feel that Senate Bill 1283 moves Pennsylvania closer to a system of public education in which every student has a fair chance to learn and every school has a fair chance to teach. This bill gives local communities the opportunity to dramatically reduce and even eliminate local school taxes.