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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 359535" data-attributes="member: 3373">Hard to argue against a reduction in any tax. One issue I see is that the State  Income Tax and Property tax are not related. The State collects and spends Income tax. Property Tax goes to counties schools, towns and cities, townships. Or in other words property tax pays for most of your road maintenance, law enforcement, fire protection, etc. The only part of property tax that the state legislature his is they think it's their job to tell the other elected officials what to do.If you really want to change property tax it's better to attend local (city, county, school, etc) tax equalization and budget meetings. From my experience of working with schools and city the attendance at these meetings, which are required to be held each year, and help either control spending or find a better way to increase income.Do you really want to go to the state legislature for approval every time you local government needs to buy a new road grader or hire another police officer. In the years I was in city government not one time did one of our local legislators respond to a question I contacted them about.It's easiest for the state to be talking about reducing income tax because that is what they collect and spend. They do neither with property tax. It's no different with state sales tax and city sales tax. The state doesn't seem to like city sales tax as that can dip into their ability to raise sales tax for the state, never mind what it does for local needs. One difference is that some of the state sales tax does go back locally but not all. In my mind relying on the legislature to listen to local concerns is a long process to get done what you really need.</blockquote>

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