It is only fair. Salt Lake City has been getting everyone else's dollars for a century. It is about time some of that came back to the people.

Are you kidding? It is more like Salt Lake City residents have been subsidizing the rest of the county for years--the zoo, arts, parks, etc. SLC residents already have the highest property tax rates. Now the legislature wants SLC residents to share in financing schools around the county. All of this so families in the south and west end of the valley can have 6 or 7 kids?

SLC has good schools and we invest in those schools, it isn't fair to now divert that tax money to Jordan, etc.

Please remember that your grandchidren will probably be raised in West Valley City, Riverton, West Jordan etc. We all benefit from a well educated populace who can earn a good living beause they have a good education. I will be glad to pay an equal portion to educate all children until the day I die. I am 70.

Did you notice that all the East side cities face a tax increase except Sandy whose taxes will decrease? Did you also notice that Senator Stephenson who's pushing this bill lives in Sandy? Those of us who live on the East side in Salt Lake City are willing to educate our poorer West side children, I'm sorry Senator Stephenson is not. This split is about greed and doesn't make academic sense either. It will contribute to urban blight just when we began to have hope our city was being re-vitalized. As for our grandchildren growing up in West Valley, that's probably true. With higher taxes and increasingly underfunded schools, their parents won't have much choice but to spend hours on overcrowded freeways paying high prices for gas and polluting the air.