A 30% increase for many homeowners, on top of a previous 20-30% increase = unable to afford the house you live in.
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Property taxes are by far the chief funding source for county governments. Counties provide roads, sheriffs, and health services. They do need some money, and they need to get it some way. And you can bet it will come from us. (Where else?)
Your county sucks but not everyones county in these beautiful united states does.
It should come from other countries paying us to sell us their shit and who are indebted to us for giving them aid. NEVER FROM US!!!
My city/county not only increased our property taxes due to the insane prices that houses were selling for back in 2022/2023, but additionally we have to pay and file yearly income taxes to the city as well, so they're not hurting for money here where I am. Edit to add, because of all that taxing, the school levies fail because nobody wants to volunteer to pay even more property tax, which is how the school levy gets funded.
Maybe true, but it should be sales tax. They can provide services based on what they afford to provide from that revenue source. I am 100% against property tax because with that you can never truly own your property when they government can file to take it for not paying tax on it. I am also not a fan of our taxed money being taxed again. Ie income tax then being forced to pay another tax on your already taxed money. We have a government spending problem not a government revenue problem.