[sr4402]

Once this woman went on a fixed income, she should have sold her property and moved to more moderate accommodations. I don’t expect granny to try to maintain her same standard of accommodations depending on a gubmit check

It happened to my In-Laws in PA. Property taxes on their 150 Thousand home were eating them alive. Living on what little savings they had and social security, they were not making it. So they had to sell their place and move to Indiana for a 90K place losing much of their nest egg money in the process.

Property taxes should be based on income, since if the income is lower than the taxes the state takes your home. Not a good idea for America.

[LetsRok]

"Property taxes should be based on income, since if the income is lower than the taxes the state takes your home. Not a good idea for America."

That would lead to wide scale tax cheating. Families would move in together or large houses would become rentals with the lowest paid person on the title as the owner for tax assessment purposes.

[Alberta's Child]

Property taxes should be based on income, since if the income is lower than the taxes the state takes your home.

No, property taxes should be based on something that provides a tangible representation of a property's impact on taxpayer costs. A home's value does not (i.e., a single person living in a 15-bedroom house requires fewer services than 5 Mexican families living together in a small Cape Cod), so it should be based on things like the size of the property (this is a good indicator of drainage area), water usage, sanitary sewer usage, number of registered vehicles on site, etc. And "public" schools should not be funded through property taxes in any way, either.