Sentences with phrase «through local tax dollars»

States have some oversight, but individual municipalities, are, in most cases, the legal entities responsible for running schools and for providing the large majority of funding through local tax dollars.

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Local businesses create jobs and help fund your town's essential services such as public schools, police and fire departments through their tax dollars.

Tax levies are total dollars collected for schools, towns and other local governments through local property taxation.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

And finally, the Colorado Education Association (CEA) charged that district schools shouldn't have to share local tax dollars, since charters didn't share the unique funding they received through grants, donations, and charter - specific federal funds.

The general operating budget is composed of primarily unrestricted dollars allocated to the district through their state funding formula and local tax revenue.

Collectively, level funding through the appropriations process and the cuts of sequestration have exacerbated the need for school districts to raise taxes or use local budget dollars to cover an ever - growing share of the federal contribution to special education.

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).

In addition to clean, renewable, homegrown energy, Heritage's wind and solar farms generate millions of dollars in local communities through contracts with local businesses, local tax revenues, royalty revenue to landowners and new jobs.