Protect Your Right to Vote on Local Option Tax for School Buildings! STOP a Car Tax Increase!
February 21, 2008
Since its inception, the local option sales tax for school infrastructure (SILO) has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to build, repair, and maintain Iowa school buildings. The SILO has undoubtedly saved significant dollars for Iowa property taxpayers, because many major school construction projects have been funded by local option sales tax that otherwise would have been paid for by raising property taxes.
But now there is heavy pressure to replace the SILO with a permanent one-cent sales and use tax increase. This change would remove the essential citizen input that has made SILO a successful partnership between voters and local school boards, and would raise property taxes.
Protect Your Right to Vote on Local Option Tax for School Buildings! STOP a Car Tax Increase!