I used to think “How can they still tax you every year on the home you *own*?!?! That’s unfair!” But I was 13 at the time.

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Here’s the thing: these people don’t object to property taxes as a philosophical matter, they object to paying taxes at all. None of them would be satisfied if the same dollar value was instead extracted as sales taxes or income taxes.

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Which was used as a big tax write off as well because they likely only had 2 kids in that 5 bedroomMcMansion.

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We can talk about Senior Property Tax Freezes and Disabled Veteran waivers and the like (e.g. Sen Duckworth), but the idea that seniors should pay $0 in property taxes just because they paid off a mortgage is nonsense

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Those same people also forced cities to downzone and ban the townhouses and things seniors downsize into

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