The real story with the retired couple is how the run up in property taxes has likely added 200-300 or more in monthly costs to their fixed budgets. Spending and taxation gone out of control - it’s a universal side effect of the “real estate boom.”
That’s my platform. One thing I would do for older adults is make it so that they they are exempt from Property tax after 65. I see too many elderly worry about that twice a year bill when they are truly on fixed incomes. I don’t think that is right.