If you own property, then you benefit from the services provided via property taxes. What would the value of your property be without a local school district? How much would it be worth without roads, sidewalks, streetlights, local parks, sanitation services, police and fire protection, etc.?
This is what’s so messed up about many people who oppose taxes. They have no idea how these tax payments end up benefiting them. [/quote]
I don’t know anyone who opposes paying their ‘fair’ share of taxes, that’s not the issue here.[/quote]The reason you don’t “know anyone” opposed to paying their “fair share” of taxes, paramount is perhaps because the neighborhoods you have been living in have been built in the last 15 years or so.
Try living with a neighbor on one side who pays ~$800 year in property tax, a neighbor on the other side who pays ~$400 year in property tax and another neighbor directly across the street who pays ~$650 year in property tax while you cough up ~$4400 year in property tax.
It is disheartening, to say the least. Such are the effects of Prop 13 and its progeny, Prop 58.
The sheer “inequality” of Prop 13 (and its progeny) are VERY MUCH “the issue here.”
