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Representative outlines plan to shift school funding from property to income
Summary
Representative introduced H177 to replace property-based education funding with an income-based model; members questioned distributional effects and placeholder tax rates in the draft bill.
Representative Kloepner of Burlington introduced bill H177, proposing a phased move of education funding from a property-value base to an income-based system.
"People would like us to do something about their property taxes," Representative Kloepner said, framing the bill as the next step in a long transition to link education funding to household income rather than property value. She told the Ways & Means Committee the bipartisan Tax Structure Commission unanimously recommended moving education funding to an income base and that the change would…
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