How is it fair that a couple with no kids pays vastly more than a family with 6 or 7 kids in an apartment? I am sorry, but if you have kids you need to pay addl taxes for each one.
Hey, I'm with you... But the property tax, abhorrent as it is, is based on the value of the property, not who lives on it, and not based on the ability to pay. I see elderly relatives struggle with it every year. It's an unfair, antiquated tax.
You know if you suggest we start basing it on the number of kids in school, you get the argument that educating our kids helps "all of us". You know, the village to raise a child thing.
How about my situation... I pay nearly $7,000 per year in property/school taxes in SE PA, but all 4 of my kids go or went to Catholic school, preschool through 8th grade, so I paid (and am still paying) tuition AND property tax for a school system they don't use...