Now owning land is simply a means for a municipality to tax you to death; what a change...
Today’s young people know that buying a home is the worst possible investment right now; you’re being set up with a 5-figure tax bill (at least here in NJ), and the mortgage interest and property tax deductions aren’t worth so much when your income is 60% of what it was 2 years ago (making the mortgage payments impossible anyway). There is giant sucking sound here in northern NJ of taxpayers and decent jobs leaving for greener pastures; housing is in terrible shape here.
At some point people are going to have to start fighting back. Demand that public officials can no longer drive people into grinding poverty.
If public officials continue to tax and tax. start a recall. Get them out of office and replace with people that swear to cut spending and taxes.
I lived in a town in CA. (80’s), that found in the first meeting of the City Council taxes were to be raised. Two weeks later everyone of them were recalled. The special election ended that s*** immediately.
I realize it was a small town, but it can be done.