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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.
and so on. All thing most readily available but I guess not as easy.
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The premise for pretty much all taxes is you pay as much as the government thinks you can afford, not what costs or benefits are.
No government would do something like this - people might get crazy notions about having a say in how money is spent if they felt like they were paying for their services - or god forbid actually had a say.
Even though I'd pay through the nose thanks to a young family, I'd be all for it.