My property taxes mostly go to my towns schools. We pay high taxes and we get high performing schools. When it comes to the literacy and STEM students in our town, they graduate from high school usually at college level in terms of skill sets. Even our worst grads are better educated that most in the surrounding communities.
I would not really want to change that.
And, since local taxes are not under the purview of the Federal government I cannot really see how they are going to change THAT system.
For a bunch of people who believe in a small government, Republicans lately seem to want to spend more, take on more debt, and control more than they used to.
I would be happy with cutting Federal spending. I am very able to deal with the local town and school leadership because they live next door to me. Congress does not.
In some states, like Maryland, public school systems are countywide. Therefore taxes support many schools, not just those of one’s own town. The school system bureaucracy is enormous and expensive.
“We pay high taxes and we get high performing schools.”
That is awesome. What is the demographic profile of school(s) in your town? For me, I prefer to remove the property tax and send my children to high performing private schools.
There are far better ways to provide tax revenue than to use a value related to real estate.