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Old 03-12-2018, 11:14 AM   #299
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Originally Posted by GGG View Post
Those were the definitions I was hoping to use.

With them property tax is not regressive, it is a tax on income. Whether you rent the property to yourself or someone else tha value of the tax is tied directly to the maximum potential income of the property.

Though I do see the regressive argument that as people spend more on property taxes increases and that in certain cases middle income will spend a greater portion of their income on property and therefore incur a higher cost.
Property tax is tied to the value of the property, not its income potential.

You seem to not understand income versus gains.
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