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Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Property has infrastructure like water, roads, electrical, sewers, etc running to it that needs to be maintained. It also has things like fire fighting police surveyors etc that need to be paid in order to maintain society. Everyone could work in a city therefore the city/county/state would collect the income tax but the local town you live in doesn’t get any of that money.

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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
there’s also stuff like gas tax, which often funds roads. Infrastructure often isn’t really related to the amount of property there is anyway. It’s related to the amount of land, and density per sq mile. But i guess you could charge farmers a lot of property tax, since they own a lot of land, that will solve that problem.

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thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Roads that are too big, house that are too spread out.

Police because stores refuse to hire their own security and offload it to onto your property tax.

Sewers because dumb people are too stupid to compost properly, and now we need chemicals on farm fields since the traditional method of composting is dead.

Garbage trucks and landfills because companies sell you wrappers and containers that outlive the products and are made from toxic waste.

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