I guess I missed the part in the OP about it being for schools. I agree with y'all on the schools getting plenty.My dad and I was talking on this very same subject a few years back during another school crisis that we always have. We compared the adjusted per student spending in that days dollars between New Brockton School in 1955 and the current average in the state. I can't recall the exact amounts but I do remember the current amount was over 3 times the 1955 rate. Remember I said we adjusted 1955 dollars to current years dollars.
Property taxes are dirt cheap in this state (no pun intended) but the overall tax burden is not. I was thinking that there is definitely room to redistribute some of that burden but you guys are right. They would just raise the rate on property taxes and leave everything else where it is.