I applaud the well thought out, viable suggestion in the letter “An equitable school funding alternative to property tax” (May 3, TribLive). However, it would just mean an additional tax. The politicos wouldn’t dream of giving tax money back! They will just spend the money on something else or line their pockets with it.

Just look at legalized gambling — that money was going to ease our tax burden. Has it? Or the Pennsylvania Turnpike — what a cash cow that is!

When they get a surplus, they fund their pet projects. Before they collected a dime of gambling money, they had more suckers on that teat than they had teat.

So I do applaud your effort, but excuse me if I don’t get all warm and fuzzy, dreaming of a lesser tax burden.

Thomas Wian

Hempfield

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