In some states, a push to end all property taxes for homeowners

[RockRaven]

11. There is no free lunch. Plans to eliminate one type of tax is always sleight-of-hand.

Are there roads and schools and cops and whatnot in your state? Then the money to pay for that stuff is coming from somewhere.

If it isn't property tax, it will be income, or sales, or various fees which are just taxes without the t-word. If it isn't paid by the individual human residents then it will be paid indirectly by businesses which charge those individual human residents higher-than-otherwise prices for goods and services.

There. Is. No. Free. Lunch.

Texas touts their absence of income tax and sneers at supposed high tax California. But when you add up ALL tax types, taxes in California are lower than in Texas for most people. You know for which people California's taxes become higher than Texas's? The richest. The 1% (metaphorically, not literally). And because the rich control the public conversation/propaganda and because we are a nation of temporarily embarrassed dumbfuck billionaires, people hear about no income tax in Texas and say "Oh! Lower taxes!"