• Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Property has infrastructure like water, roads, electrical, sewers, etc running to it that needs to be maintained. It also has things like fire fighting police surveyors etc that need to be paid in order to maintain society. Everyone could work in a city therefore the city/county/state would collect the income tax but the local town you live in doesn’t get any of that money.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      there’s also stuff like gas tax, which often funds roads. Infrastructure often isn’t really related to the amount of property there is anyway. It’s related to the amount of land, and density per sq mile. But i guess you could charge farmers a lot of property tax, since they own a lot of land, that will solve that problem.