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Originally Posted by fotze
I see the issue as "why does home value have any bearing on what you should owe to the city"? The only rationale is, because it is easy. There is no relation to your house's value to how much you burden the city. None. I believe that in this age of computers we could move to a more equitable measn of charging the citizens what they cost..
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I guess it's supposed to be a "progressive" tax like income tax... he who hath more pay more. The problem is twofold: 1) Income is pretty easy to document, whereas the assessment of a property involves quite a large subjective factor. 2) If someone has a high current income, it is not unreasonable to assume that they have the ability to pay higher taxes, but there are many cases where someone may live in a nice home but no longer has a lot of cash or income coming in.