Solution: abolish all property taxes, replacing them with a “local services fee” charged at a percentage of your home’s value.

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“I should only pay taxes for things I use,” is the attitude of someone who doesn’t care about bettering society. I don’t have kids. I still want my taxes to go to schools because what happens when it doesn’t? *waves around blithely* This crap.

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"Right-wing and white nationalist violence remains the biggest threat to the United States domestically. And yet the FBI and the federal government has all-but given up investigating it, and the President is in fact one of the nation’s leading spreaders of hate-speech..." 🙀

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Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

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beyond not understanding that you retain a benefit — growing equity — that justifies continued taxation, what is happening is that these people don’t understand that their mortgage payment included a property tax payment that went into escrow. that, and simple selfishness, is what’s happening here.

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