They want to hold the line on local and state taxes.
True, you have to pay a local property tax on your house's value.
Since then the money has come from various general and local taxes.
The school received 88% of the money from local taxes.
As a result, more than half the money in the District budget comes from local taxes.
The city's local taxes are already among the highest in the nation.
The other is local taxes, considered among the highest in the nation.
The district has tried but failed to increase local taxes to better support the schools in recent years.
No local, state or federal tax funds were used in the construction of the project.
For this reason local taxes will always be seen as part of the national tax structure.
