Florida governor Ron DeSantis has attacked the very concept of property taxes. In a speech last year, he portrayed them as unfair. “You buy a home, you pay off the mortgage, and yet, you still have to write a check to the government every year—just for the privilege of living on your own private property. Is the property yours, or are you just renting it from the government?” DeSantis is trying to push through a “reform” to Florida’s property tax system that would eventually exempt the first $250,000 of a person’s home value from being taxed, promising that eventually 60 percent of homeowners would pay no property tax at all. Proposals to eliminate or heavily limit property tax are under consideration in other states, too. The Idaho Republican Party has called for the wholesale elimination of property tax, describing it as “an inherently unjust tax that converts privately owned property into government collateral and threatens homeownership.”
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If government taxes are a threat to homeownership than you are over leveraged on your property.
You fucking should have property taxes that should go toward things like sidewalks, roads to get to your property, parks and rec opportunities, schools, and even into municipalized utilities. Yeah you theoretically could break all of those down into smaller charges to different orgs, but it’d be a lot cheaper and easier to manage billing if it was just rolled into your property taxes.
Edit: For reference my annual taxes are half a single monthly mortgage payment.
A regressive handout to the rich.
That said, land value taxes are better.
Broken clocks.
