Research shows negative effects of property tax caps
While New York considers inadvisable caps on local property taxes, some proponents have pointed out that the idea has been implemented in other states. However, a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research group providing public policy analysis, has found that such caps have been damaging to education and other public services. The report discusses states such as California and Massachusetts, where public education suffered under tax caps.
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"The right kind of cap." Research shows that arbitrary tax caps erode local control, dismantle strong district programs and penalize the poorest communities.
Updates
- How would a tax cap impact your school district's funding?
- NY Times: A hunger for a property-tax cap, but the teachers' union isn't feeling it
- NYSUT Testimony to the Commission on Property Tax Relief
- Lubin urges rejection of tax cap
- NYSUT activists to urge Legislature to keep the promise
- Transition in Albany raises questions on property tax cap, education endowment. Times Union
- Iannuzzi: Let's not cap our ability to end gap
- Weingarten: Our kids deserve better than cuts and caps
- County executives, Speaker Silver voice objections over tax caps. Newsday.
- Superintendent makes case for opposing tax caps. Poughkeepsie Journal.
How would a tax cap impact your school district's funding? Use this simple, handy online worksheet to find out how much your district would have already lost if a tax cap had been implemented in 2005.
Property tax caps would limit educational investment. Property tax caps have damaged public education in other states and would threaten the progress being made by New York students.
Research shows negative effects of property tax caps. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports that caps damaging to education and other public services.
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