How do you feel about property tax?

Check out where the taxes you pay on property every year are actually spent where you live. In every city I'm aware of, well over half of all the property tax revenue goes to the local 'EDUCATION INDUSTRY' -- not toward "medical care", roads, bridges, other infrastructure, or anything else. And the teachers' unions love this situation exactly as it is, and want even MORE!

Hint: my parents paid property taxes for me to go to public school -- fair enough. But, if a person never has any children of their own, why should they have to pay for 'public school systems'...? The reply is always some socialist bullshit which assumes that, "... well, we ALL benefit....", even though that is totally unproven -- especially in today's society!

 

With todays birth rate as low as it is and has been for several years, if all schools were EQUALLY funded, based on number of attendees at the school x amount of dollars per student, then we would have to have FEDERAL TAXES paying for public schools. We could get rid of the for profit charter schools and remove the stigma of inner city education. There would be less inner city flight to suburbia by those raising children, probably over all a much better way of funding schools. We could then have standardized fair testing once education is leveled out.

 

I am too one of those people who think that property taxes undermines the right to private property.

I will try to add some points from my perspective and background.

The issue you bring was also a hot topic in my home country.
Geography is the most overlooked aspect of history. Where I live 50% of the population is rural with a focus on homesteading.
Because of the temperate humid climate, a family of lets say 5, with a son and 2 girls, can live sustainably without paper or plastic(money) through the year from a small patch of land. These people generally do not have or produce money and all their work time is around the household not a job.

If you would come to visit, you would be like stepping back in time. You ll find most doing field and animal work, the local miller, blacksmith, hunters, brinks maker, horse carriages, the militia, and the fortified wall church.

The state was impoverishing the homesteaders with the property tax. People were forced to sell parts of their land and become increasingly reliant on money.

The solution was for the state to give special pensions in certain conditions to households for the property tax...Like a bandaid but did not solve the actual problem.

The result of the decision and the law also finally decided in my home country that even if you are homeless you cannot make a shelter and live in the public(state-owned not used) forests or pastures.
If you were to allow a homeless on your unused forest or pasture that you own, you would be taxed an extra for renting.

 

I don't mind paying property tax if the money is used wisely. It never is.