Should property taxes be abolished?

[John Dibble]

Only if you could find a better means for local governments to collect revenue. Sales taxes wouldn't really work because if your tax is much higher than neighboring locales it discourages people from spending in your area, including the people who live in the area itself. Local governments don't have the resources necessary to enforce an income tax considering that people often work outside of the cities and counties they live in and maintaining the bureaucracy needed for that wouldn't likely be cost effective at that level. User fees doesn't address the problem of poverty, as some people may not be able to afford the fees necessary to send their kids to school which would not be a good thing for the individual children or the community as a whole.

No human system is going to work perfectly, but I think property taxes work better at the local level than other solutions, so that's the solution we should go with.