It's a nice break, but it's not tax reform
According to the numbers released by the state Education Department last week, homeowners in the region’s school districts will receive somewhere between a $125 and $328 cut in school real estate taxes this year.
The break marks the first property-tax cuts from slot-machine gambling in Pennsylvania.
Left out of the calculation is an estimate of how long it will take to gobble up that cut with future property tax hikes in budgets to come.
The answer is not very many years.
Also left out of the calculation is what will happen in future years if economic woes such as those now gripping the country cut into what is spent (lost) at slot machines.
The answer is nothing good.
While everyone in the region should be grateful for a tax break of any kind, there’s little to celebrate because of the formula for the tax break is delicate and temporary.
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