Regarding the revision of the state’s tax system. Please, legislators, before you reduce the income tax any more, before you raise sales taxes, do a few things.
First, update the amount of money a family can deduct for living expenses and dependents. The income tax was never supposed to tax the most basic costs of living.
Second, find out how much money it would take to correct the decades of insufficient public education funding to make sure conditions are improved such that good teachers are attracted to the state and are willing to stay in the profession more than a few years.