We in Pennsylvania have been trying to get rid of the school/property tax for years. Over 10,000 people in our state lose their homes here every year - many of them seniors on fixed incomes and homes paid off. They almost got rid of it in 2015, when the Pa legislature voted and it was a tie, but our democrat Lieutenant Gov. at the time broke the tie and walked away snickering. A pox on him and all who voted against it. >:-(
If we xan’t get rid of the property tax altogether, I do think that the property taxes should freeze so that elderly people do not lose their homes because they can’t afford to pay the increased taxes. I lived in an area which “took off” in popularity, so values increased, taxes increased, and the people who had lived there all their lives could no longer afford to live there.
Truly horrid.
Of course, losing one’s family home because of the high cost of taxes is also bad, but not as bad as this, because the heirs have usually moved to other places of their own. We are going through this now in our family, where an inherited home might be sold simply because the taxes on the house are astronomical.
In Indiana, almost 60% of our property tax goes to the schools.