Generalization across 332 million people in the US is always going to oversimplify things. Thinking in terms of funding for schools is generally vastly more costly than water and sewerage, but in a few communities that’s a major issue.

Local governments are responding to local issues. Some cities are actively zoning to discourage people living in them because they don’t want to fund more schools. Office buildings are in effect more profitable than condos when a state and local government is primarily funded via property taxes. And guess what Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming have no income taxes.