claim: says "one of the state’s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year."
author: yes on 79
evidence_1: jul 25, 2018 ... understanding where state tax dollars go ― and the trends in state ... (this figure  does not include the federal funds that states also spent that year.) ... more than  one-fourth of state spending on average, or about $316 ... the federal  government provides only about 8 percent of public school revenues.
evidence_2: says "one of the state's largest governments made charging this tax one of their  top priorities just this year." — politifact oregon on tuesday, september 25th, ...
evidence_3: the federal government raises trillions of dollars in tax revenue each year,  though there are many different kinds of taxes. ... unlike federal funds, trust funds  can be used only to pay for specific programs. ... each year, and those income  taxes make up the federal government's single largest revenue source. .... state  required.
evidence_4: aug 15, 2016 ... years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities have driven ...  of the states that have finalized their higher education budgets for the ... it by  entertaining tax cuts that in many cases would give the biggest breaks to ..... in  2000, only one for-profit made the top 25 (the rest were either four-year ...
evidence_5: oct 16, 2015 ... a tax-the-rich plan could raise enough to, for example, eliminate all public ... “ right now, the wealthy pay too little,” hillary rodham clinton said at this ... the  top 1 percent on average already pay roughly a third of their .... middle-income  families make substantially less money than they did 15 years ago, ...