To the Editor:
In response to Bob Danna and Mike Songer (“Archaic Formula,” 6/28) and Bill Hutson (“Is This Fair?” 6/28), the statistical model the trickster uses to explain the regional school tax can be put into an equation: x divided by y equals an unfair tax. X is the regional school tax collected from a geographical location and y is the number of students who attend the regional school from that arbitrary geographic location. The trickster’s statistical result is always the same: an unfair tax.
There is no “fair tax.” However, property taxes and thus school taxes are as “fair” a tax as there is because property…
July 5, 2017
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