I didn't say we should replace property tax with income tax. I said they're both unethical, but maybe one is slightly less so since it's based on earnings.

And Eden was not underpaying for years. When I was growing up, you could buy a home there for $50-200k. Then the town was "discovered" and new construction exploded and demand skyrocketed. I'm a Realtor and have access to the full history of home sale prices that were sold by agents since records started being kept.

Same thing happened with Whitefish, MT. I stayed there for a summer in 1995, it was a quiet town, cheap to live in. After it was discovered, the same thing happened. Now it's all million dollar homes.

It happens to different towns all over the US at different times.

Changing the way we value property does not fix the underlying problem, which is that we never own our homes. It is unethical for the government to keep us beholden to paying taxes forever, at threat of losing the very roof over our head.

It's fine if you disagree, but you seem to have missed the point of my article.