Proposition 208 is good for Arizona schools. It also exposes flaws within our tax system

[Note to BfAZ readers: This is my op-ed piece in today’s AZ Republic. If you’re interested in the subject, my IPS colleague, Sam Pizzigati, and I cover it in greater depth at Inequality.org]

Arizona teachers will get well-deserved raises under Proposition 208, the initiative that increases taxes on the 50,000 or so highest-income earners in our state and uses the resulting revenue to fund increased teacher pay.

But did you know that because of an inequitable change to the federal tax treatment of state and local tax payments – or SALT, for short – Proposition 208 also benefits Texans?

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