Reply #16: Pick your poison. If there were no property tax you would pay more ... [View All]

[underpants]

in income or sales tax. It all depends on the demand on the government services.

Two for instances. Here in Va. 70% of the "car tax" was done away with so the localities who collect it had to have revenue from another stream (let's skip over cutting services for now). The city of Richmond raised the assessed value of most homes by ~40% in a two year span thus filling in (sort of) for the loss of the car tax revenue.

A co-worker from Pennsylvania didn't understand the tax on cars and boats which they don't have in Pa. (I hope I am getting this right) so I asked her, "Are there any taxes in Pa. that we don't have here?" She said, "Yeah in Pa. they have a 'school tax' $300 per person"

You are going to pay it one way or another and often for newspaper headlines they don't raise TAXES but fees and licenses.