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The Once And Future Property Tax: A Dialogue With My Younger Self, Edward A. Zelinsky
The Once And Future Property Tax: A Dialogue With My Younger Self, Edward A. Zelinsky
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As I look back on my youth (expansively defined as the first 40 years of my life), everywhere I went, the local real property tax was perceived as both bad and doomed. If I could speak with the brash young law student/graduate student/alderman I once was, he would undoubtedly tell me, with great confidence, that by the beginning of the next century (which then seemed very far away) the property tax would no longer play a role in the system of local public finance.
Alas, he was wrong.
This essay explains why the young man I once was, confident of …