Have you noticed every time a "tax" is cut another "tax" is increased elsewhere, usually a higher earner type situation gets a cut, then a new tax is created for those who pay less money.
We had property tax relief a few years ago in Iowa for commercial properties, property taxes partially pay for infrastructure improvements and schools, well with in two years the school district tax surcharge increased, vehicle registration fees went up and gas tax increased .10 to cover the losses from the property tax reduction. Funny thing is I don't remember rents going down on rental properties or price of goods in brick and mortar store, or even a wage increase for the workers of brick and mortar businesses.
If you think spending will be reduced you are just talking into the wind, never going to happened, politicians want to be reelected.
I'm for flat tax on all income, but we also know that will never happen.
That's a function of the government you vote for.
In WI, ALL taxes have gone up steadily for decades under tax and spend liberals and tax and spend rinos- it was the 'WI Progressive Way.' If you were against tax increases, you were against children, If you were for tax cuts, you probably kidnapped babies and made soup out of them, if you were against school referenda or exobitant raises and benifits for teachers, its because you were against the best public education system in the country (lol) .... Politicians literally could not speak in such terms without being excoriated by the media and the democrats, meanwhile democrats figured out how to skim money from all aspects of life to fuel their powerful machine.
At some point people had enough. They voted in Scott Walker and replaced the legislature's liberals and mushy rinos with TEA part conservatives, and the democratic machine got crushed. Property taxes immediately stopped going up, in many places they started receding. In places where property taxes continued to move up, it exposed the local government to close scrutiny, and more often than not, the offending politicians got replaced.
All in all, overall tax burdens went
down, which is almost unprecedented anywhere in America. In my old home where I lived until I got divorced, the property tax has gone down about 10%- and that's with a 120 million dollar school referendum being passed in that school district.