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commonwealth-272	Argall, David G.; Hopcraft, John; Fischel, William A.	Commonwealth Forum: Should Pennsylvania Abolish the Property Tax? Part II	2020	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5258	288	64	Why should we require school 3.00 146% growth 61% growth School property tax collections Regional CPI 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 0.50 0.00G ro w th in de x w ith 1 99 3– 19 94 v al ue s a t 1 .0 19 93 –19 94 19 95 –19 96 19 97 –19 98 19 99 –20 00 20 01 –20 02 20 03 –20 04 20 05 –20 06 20 07 –20 08 20 09 –20 10 20 11 –20 12 Figure 3.1 Historic trends in school property tax collections and regional consumer price index. Because of the state government’s inability to prevent school property taxes from rising each year, the calls to eliminate—not reform—this hated tax continue to grow louder each year.	cache/commonwealth-272.pdf	txt/commonwealth-272.txt