“...increase property taxes without a vote of the people...”
Isn’t this why American colonists rejected the British monarchy?
Looting public revenues without the consent of the taxed sounds like and in fact IS institutionalized THEFT on a gargantuan scale.
It certainly de-legitimizes the individuals and government entities which propose and carry out such rapacious and unethical schemes.
This systematic exploitation of America’s taxpaying workers has by now thoroughly compromised our future and for decades to come !