"Funding for Education"

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From the e-Activities, evaluate the disparity of your state’s budget allocation for education and property tax to the various localities. Based on your assessment, challenge or defend the equity of the system across the various localities.
Identify and explain your choices for reductions and increases. Discuss at least two lessons you learned about the challenge of balancing the federal budget.

e-Activity: Go to the “Quarterly Summary of State and Local Tax Revenue”, located at http://www.census.gov/govs/qtax/. Review the revenue information for your state. Review the revenue of two neighboring states. Be prepared to discuss.
"Sales Tax Holidays: Politically Expedient but Poor Tax Policy 2015", located at https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-holidays-politically-expedient-poor-tax-policy-2015/
Read “Sales Tax Holidays: An Ineffective Alternative to Real Sales Tax Reform”