Property taxes could be progressive. The more your dwelling costs, the more (percentage-wise) you could pay.

and that is just more taxes without fixing how property taxes are used - we don't need more "progressive" taxes like that. Never mind the contractors and laborers who would be hurt by a lessening of new, more expensive homes. We tried that with luxury items and killed the yacht building industry in the US and put a lot of skilled craftspeople out of work.

Somehow I can't imagine luxury home building and luxury yacht building industries are going to get much sympathy from the vast majority of Americans, whose median family income is around $40k per year.

So, we should only have jobs that build things that people who make $40K can afford? That is a pretty short-sighted way to make economic decisions.

Well, Americans should have sympathy for the workers who spent lifetimes learning crafts that just disappeared at the stroke of a politicians pen.