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I don't own a house but i am desperately saving so that someday i might and the fact that i'll be paying property taxes does not in anyway change my mind. Homeowners are better off than renters. That's the main reason that you're going to have a tough time convincing me that homeowners are being mistreated.
People will pay for utilities that will directly benefit them but not all homeowners value contributing to the community that their home is in. this is especially the case in neighborhoods where most of the residences are rentals. these are often also poorer neighborhoods. if property owners are allowed to dictate what they are willing to spend property taxes on these neighborhoods will further suffer. Then you end with a system that fails the poorest among us in favor of making the wealthy more wealthy. how can you expect the poor to better themselves when their forced to go to the least well funded schools and live in neighborhoods with inadequate utilities?
I actually make a decent amount of money for a 27 year old single woman and while sometimes i glance over at the amount of money that i send to the tax man every pay period and dream about the home i could own, the vacations i could take and the swimming pool i could fill with change I know that taxes make a society work. and while i don't agree with some of the ways that the government has chosen to use my money i respect the system and I know that i have benefited from it. I went to public school, i take the subway everyday, i like having policeman and I want those who are less fortunate than me to have a chance to better their position. I am willing to pay for those things and so too often all of this complaining about taxes being too high (in a country that has one of the lowest tax rates in the developed world) sounds like so much greedy whining.
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