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by exabrial 1442 days ago
Property taxes are some of the most aggressive/regressive wars on the poor.
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How so? Don't rich people usually own more property than poor people?
How much is $1500 for a millionaire?
But property tax isn't a flat $1500. The more valuable the property you own, the higher the tax is, and richer people tend to own more valuable property.
uhhh, hate to break it to you bub but a $1M home in the bay area which does not buy you much is going to cost close to $15k a year in property taxes (source: owner of said property in the bay area)
precisely. $1500 is a year's worth of food for someone at the poverty line. For a bajillonaire, it's a rounding error.
No, that's sales tax.