but if the taxes go through the roof then the locals are far more to blame than the part time residents.
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Example -
Washington State
Huge population (liberal) on the west side votes in big property taxes. Many are renters and do not directly see these taxes.
Small population (conservative) on the east side does not vote for these taxes.
Meanwhile, the east side grows all the food for the west side. East side has rural setting that the west side invades for recreation. PS the invaders try to turn the east side into the culture that they are escaping from.
This is not ‘logic’. This is fact.
You are either deliberately or accidentally conflating local taxes with state taxes. You were talking about property taxes going up so that locals can’t afford them. Property taxes are set at the county level so that the renters in Seattle have no input to the property tax rate in Eastern Washington. I really hate it when someone dishonestly puts forth a bogus argument. I hope you just didn’t make the connection with real estate taxes being being strictly local