More and more states are considering plans to cut property taxes during an election year, but this year's election year is causing resistance to cut local government and public school funding. National experts have labelled this as a property tax revolt, comparing it to the 1978 initiative that limited property tax rates and how much local governments could increase property valuations on homes for tax purposes. In Georgia, a state constitutional amendment that could have reduced property taxes for homeowners by 75% or more failed when all but one Democrat voted against it. New proposals have also been proposed to cut taxes in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. However, efforts to eliminate property taxes on a homeowner's primary residence face a difficult path, with Thomas Brosy, a senior research associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, stating that eliminating property taxes is "very unlikely to happen."