Timothy Birdnow

This is well past due; people across the country have had it with rising property taxes and are about to rebel against them.

Property Tax Revolt Exploding Across the U.S.

I own two houses and am paying about double what I paid twenty years ago despite depreceation (which is considerable). This is something really hurting the American taxpayer. Often they can't afford the taxes now being imposed.

If Trump wants to win Congress this next election a push to reform property taxes would certainly help. Of course property taxes are generally local taxes.

The beauty of any restructuring which forces the lowering of tax rates is it hurts Democrats by defunding them in the big cities where they dominate. They have long since already spent the projected revenue they will receive by reassessing property values.

This also will help reduce costs to farmers who can then lower their prices on what they produce.

It's a win/win for everyone but the cities and the teacher's unions.

Trump may not be able to use his pen to help in this crisis but he can use the bully pulpit and stress the local nature of this particular swindle, thus encouraging people to get out and vote Republican in state and local elections. And it may be possible Trump can threaten to, say, withhold highway funding to states that are pushing taxes way up.

He can at least try; all they can do is file in court against him. Sometimes trying to do the right thing is itself a victory, especially if the public sees what you tried to do - and who tried to stop you.

At any rate it's a morally righteous thing, to not gouge people to support whatever spendthrift ideas their states and local governments hatch up. And it's a popular cause; any property owner pays these taxes.

Biden let in millions upon millions of aliens into the U.S. and this drove up the price of housing, so the average American has to pay the cost of Mr. Biden's folly and his sins. THAT is a form of thievery even if legal. It's shameful and the time has come to end this grift which steal so much of America's lifeblood.

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