In what purports to be an even-handed discussion, Atlanta Magazine this month trashes the proposal to drastically cut property taxes and pay for schools with sales taxes.

The proposal, which could be on the ballot in next year's election, would be a huge transfer of wealth to rural areas and big businesses, writes Rebecca Burns:

Today, property taxes for education are levied locally and spent locally. So that $2,029 I pay to DeKalb County is used by DeKalb County Schools. Under the proposed new system, funding is divvied up equally, and each school system in Georgia would get the same per-student amount.

This means that areas with denser populations and lots of shoppers (i.e. metro Atlanta) will raise more sales taxes than rural parts of the state. When that sales-tax pie is evenly sliced, some regions will “export” tax dollars while others will “import” them. Fulton County will be the largest exporter.

There is no equivalently-positive quote about the proposal, so the magazine must be biased and leftist, right?

Discuss.