"Come to the D.C. suburbs where you'll pay $5000/year in property taxes for an average single family home"
You don't have to go to D.C. My home is a single family home, middle class, fully paid off, in the Dallas area and they charge me about $475.00 per month in property tax. It just went up.
Just dropped off my property tax payment at the San Diego County Treasurer's office yesterday - $1,450 on my house with no reappraisal unless I sell or build an addition.
What a relief that I am not living in Taxus where the Taxans are victimized yearly by tax hungry politicians and tax collectors. Thank you, Howard Jarvis!