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by moistly 1249 days ago
You should encourage some property tax reforms in your area. The way it should work is that a budget is set, and then property owners are taxed to meet that budget. When done that way, the tax rate on your property will actually drop as its value increases, because the budget isn’t any bigger.

Where I live, the only time my property tax rises is when the budget is increased. (Unfortunately, the budget keeps on increasing, because city council keeps having bigger and bigger dreams. Oh, yay, I’m so glad we’re dropping $50M on another sports centre I’ll never use. Better upgrade the pool while we’re at it, it’s been an entire decade since we last spent a fortune on it!)