Re:How Property Taxes Shape Our Cities
by JamesBarney on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:05PM
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I think lots of people pursue non optimal tax strategies because being kicked out of your house for being a multi-millionaire is more emotionally salient than all of the good the government can do with increased revenue from property taxes.
I bet more people will be in the later bucket than the ones who analyze things like you do. Since (property) tax policy depends on politics, which is driven mostly by emotions rather than reason, how would you persuade people to think like you? And if one cannot persuade them and simply try to impose one's preferred tax policy by whatever means, then we will see a tax revolt similar to what happened in 1978 with Prop 13.