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Home / News Articles / Taxpayers in Jordan School District aim anger at wrong people, George Pyle writes

Taxpayers in Jordan School District aim anger at wrong people, George Pyle writes

August 10, 2022 (Salt Lake Tribune)

…As far back as 2016, number-crunchers at the Utah Foundation worked out that years of tax cuts cost Utah public education $1.2 billion a year. That’s a burden that gets shifted to local school boards, whose only tool is the property tax…

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