• Fribbizz@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Property taxes are local — they fund schools,

    Funding schools by highly localized tax isn’t universal. The US adopted it to make sure less affluent areas have worse schools. I believe the UK does similar things, but they also want marked differences between public and private school alumnus.

    but most that tried it abandoned it — capital flight and valuation headaches.

    And most importantly: relentless lobbying by the wealthy to get rid of those taxes.

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      3 days ago

      source on the size of the effects of lobbying vs flight risk?

      I would like to agree with you, its just very not-obvious which influence dominates.