Arizona Supreme Court Questions New Education Tax Legality
The justices raised the questions during a hearing on an expedited constitutional challenge to the new voter-approved tax on high-earning Arizonans that was designed to boost school funding.
Opponents of the new tax focused on an exemption in Proposition 208 that gets around the school spending limit by calling the new revenue “grant” funding. But attorney Dominic Draye said that exemption just isn't legal.
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