Any tax on homestead property is wrong.
Gee, I've been saying that on this forum for years and nobody seems to know what I'm talking about.
We now have a whole generation that has grown up thinking there's something normal about taxing the crap out of personal homes.
Here in California the Homestead Exemption is set at its 1972 level of $7000. It was not changed since Prop 13 essentially froze the taxes of the people who bought or owned in that time frame.
But why waste time with pantywaist solutions like that? Like you said...any tax on homestead property is WRONG.
We should own the property we live on. Untaxed, forever.
Otherwise we own nothing and are no more than the slaves of the municipal bureaucrats.