Printer-friendly versionCBC Deputy Research Director Elizabeth Lynam testifies to a Joint Hearing of the Senate Committee on Local Government and the Assembly Committee on Real Property Taxation. To fund more appropriate taxpayer relief mechanisms the Middle Class STAR program should be replaced with an improved circuit breaker. Redistributing these funds would serve the dual purpose of not adding to what is already a $5 billion budget gap next year while at the same time allowing for a good start directing help to the most severely strapped local taxpayers.
