Property taxes should be illegal, anyway.
Agreed. Planning and building offices should also be shut down, because they’re useless and very expensive (high salaries for directors). Buyers without building experience hire private inspectors to look at the houses anyway. Many COs have been issued for many bad builds under local cronyism. I’ve seen proof of several such builds near me. Others local favorites have been allowed to occupy and resell without COs.
Constitutionally speaking, they are. Not that that counts for jack when the government, with its corrupt judiciary, is hungry for revenue in this country.