I’m a school board member that would support a property tax cap—so long as the state legislature eliminated a whole host of unfunded mandates. I would never support any kind of cap—unless the mandates were eliminated concurrently—i.e., not prospectively. The problem is in part that no one in Albany wants to take on the NYSUT or other unions directly. The cap is an indirect way to attempt to force reforms through the collective bargaining process and the public employee health and retirement structures in place. Our pols don’t have the guts to deal with these issues head on—so they target the amorphous “property tax”. Demographic trends all over the state are pointing to the end of the property tax as the sole source of school funding. I believe that if Albany dealt forthrightly with the mandates—that there would be no real need for a cap. It would occur naturally.