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How do you fund all the programs currently funded by property tax? Not the least of which is local public education.


By using other taxes, like income tax or VAT. The point isn't inherently to change the amount of government revenue, only to shift where it comes from so that existing property owners don't revolt when they paid a certain amount for a property expecting it to appreciate and then it doesn't without anything to offset it.




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