[Past Your Eyes]

What if the owner is blind?

[gondramB]

"What if the owner is blind?"

For fairness there ought to be all kinds of exceptions to taxes - like if the person is elderly and has lived in the area since before the land became valuable... there are limits to how much that can be done...

The pumpkin and Christmas tree farm we go to every October and December is now surrounded by trendy subdivisions - that family has been farming there since the the war of Northern Aggression and I dread the day they can no longer stay there.

[Atlas Sneezed]

What if the owner is blind?

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What if my property value has gone way up, but I don't like it here?

The real answer is that the efficient thing for someone who does not value his property as much as the market does, is to sell, and buy one he values more for the same price. Which is what actually happens in the real world.

I hate property taxes, but I hate even worse that affordability should be a factor. The only factor should be the cost to provide shared services to the property. Talking affordability plays into the Marxists' ("from each") hands.