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Mandela Barnes: “If we increase that tax rate by less than 1%, 0.9%, 0.8%, we…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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… seeing the resources, have not been seeing the funding Again, there's no reason these school districts should be going to referendum every single year just to fund basic services. And If we increase that tax rate by less than 1%, 0.9%, 0.8%, we do a great deal to provide much more funding to our school districts. and also help Close the share revenue. Is that what you're proposing? 0.8 or 0.9%? Well, I'm saying this is all I'm happy to negotiate. This is, this is what we need to negotiate. (23:37–23:50)

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Asserts that a small tax increase on high incomes could significantly fund school districts.

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