[likpok]

The cost of all of these things do increase with the value of the home, because the labor required to do it gets more expensive. The individual house price doesn't contribute to this but overall housing costs do.

SF has had an explosion in property values and thus struggles to find teachers, firefighters and police officers at the salaries it's willing to pay.

[scarface74]

Again why should those taxes be based solely on housing instead of or in addition to other types of wealth?