For an example scroll down in this real estate ad that I am using only for an example and look at the projected property taxes if you paid the asking price of $800,000 for this 3,000 sq ft house. The rate is 2.2% per year and it comes to $1466 a month or $17,598 a year.
We could afford to buy the house, but being on a fixed income the property taxes would eat us alive. Freedom is not free in New Hampshire.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/662-4th-Range-Rd-Suncook-NH-03275/2066546719_zpid/
In Alabama where the tax rate is much lower you could pay $805,000 for the following 8,000 sq ft house and your property taxes if calculated on the purchase price and a rate of .32% a year would be only $220 a month or $2,640 a year.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1860-Goodwin-Dr-NW-Cullman-AL-35058/2067619660_zpid/
Freedom is still not free in Alabama, but it is a heck of a lot cheaper than New Hampshire.
Again I have no connection with either property they are being used only as examples of the difference in property tax rates.
Sorry italicized my own words.
CATO is not liberal.
But perhaps they’re a little blind or foolish.
NH has no income or sales tax, but the property taxes are very high.