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Replacing Property Taxes with Sales Taxes is the Wrong Answer for Texas Families and Public Schools

  

Author:
Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101

August 7, 2012

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Public education is the foundation of our democracy and the engine of our economy, and Texans have a collective responsibility to ensure that public education is adequately supported. This responsibility needs to be fairly distributed among Texas families in a way that supports economic growth. Recently, some have proposed that Texas replace local school property taxes, or even all local property taxes, by increasing the rate of the state sales tax or expanding the sales tax to more goods and services. Such a tax swap would be a bad deal for businesses, families, and public education. This policy page outlines the reasons why.