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by lax4ever 764 days ago
These are two different types of taxes. Your home, and any increase in value, is not taxed as income like what is trying to be done to unrealized gains. Your residence is actually a loss asset given the upkeep costs and property taxes that you pay without earning income on it. Property taxes only similarity with income taxes is that money is being collected by the state.