Regarding the League of Women Voters letter concerning Illinois education funding [The answer to tax relief is in the state legislature, Viewpoints, Aug. 16], the proposed solution (greater state funding of education) fails to quantify inevitable massive individual state income tax and, worse, ignores the root cause of the current dilemma-namely out-of-control local school expenditures due to salary increases far in excess of inflation and staffing increases disproportional to enrollment trends.
