To: The Pennsylvania State House, The Pennsylvania State Senate, and Governor Tom Wolf

Fair Share State and School Taxes

Pay your fair share

Why is this important?

There needs to be a change the public school funding so that all school taxes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are collected into a single, statewide pool, and then redistributed to school districts normalized for cost of living.
Pennsylvania's public schools are currently funded largely on the basis of local property taxes paid by property owners and not by renters. Currently renters do not pay a school tax and some property owners have made homes into a multiple unit complex.
This means that richer districts get *much* more funding per student than poorer ones, such as in rural counties or inner cities.

The funding formula should be changed so that all school taxes are collected in a way of a "Fair Share Tax" in which a higher sales tax is collected into a single, statewide pool, and then redistributed to school districts normalised for cost of living (eg: it costs less to educate a child in Perry County than in Pittsburgh).
Now a "Fair Share Tax"would be be economicaly responsible. The fair share tax would tax all resident, businesses, guests to the Commonwealth
The end result of this will be better-educated children across Pennssylvania, improving the state's economy over the long term.