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by rahimnathwani 3617 days ago
You can pay taxes with your home value. Your home has a value as a home. That 'value as a home' can be quantified as rent. If you rent out your home to someone else, you can pay a portion of that as tax. If you would prefer not to do that, and to live in it yourself, you would make that decision after weighing the fact that you have to cover that tax yourself.

Property taxes aren't obviously absurd. I realise that there are counter-arguments (see supporters of prop 13 in California) but it's not as simple a situation as your comment suggests.