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Robert McColley: “The vast majority of the money from your property taxes…”

Featuring: Robert McColley, Republican | Ohio State Senate, District 1

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Over the course of the past several decades, our property tax system has become a convoluted mess. And most of the voters don't understand what's happening when they see their property taxes go up. The vast majority of the money from your property taxes, probably depending on the school district, anywhere between 65, 75% goes to your local school district. I think voters probably understand that, at least most of them probably do. But they probably don't understand some of the games that are being played to get basically unvoted … (26:20–26:30)

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Asserts that 65-75% of property taxes go to local school districts.

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