When I was with the local taxpayers alliance in the surburbs, I met widows who had their paid-for homes taken away for tax purposes. A typical story would involve a home that was bought 30+ years ago for 20 thousand dollars or less, yet was now worth 100 to 300 thousand, with the corresponding tax bill at 6000 and up. These women lived on tiny pensions and social security and could not pay 500 per month just for property taxes.
An Income tax is a tax on income coming in, so you can afford it. You can avoid or minimize sales tax by watching your spending, but you can't avoid or minimize property tax, and don't say the solution is pulling old ladies out of their homes.
It is called down-sizing.
And yes, older people make these type of choices all the time.
Yep. I like to say that if there are property taxes, there is no such thing as property ownership. Only rental from the government.
And in that statement is the problem. This is especially true in a nation that was built on the concept of private property rights.
This is why owning property should be a requirement to the right to vote.
People that do not pay taxes should not be voting for programs that inflict taxes on those who do.