While I get your point, the tax isn’t on homesteaders; it is on non-primary/vacation homeowners presumably out of state and non-voting.
Always easy targets. Florida perfected the tactic decades ago.
I understand. They did it in VT as well.
My family home was along the shores of a lake. It had been in our family since the 1870’s.
When my mom went into a nursing home, her senior, resident tax rate was about $1,700. As soon as her primary residence changed (she moved closer to us in MA) the annual tax rate went up to about $13k. There was no way we could maintain the home.
So we sold it, and it became a “seasonal vacation” home for some rich folks.
It is a money grab, pure and simple.
Yep. And Swift herself is a voting resident in the state of Tennessee, with it's zero state income tax.