And here I thought property taxes paid for civic services. You know, police and sheriff's departments, stuff like that.From what I'm hearing, some police departments have really good IT systems that they probably could sell across the country to reduce local tax. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1