August 24, 2006
USA Today -- Soaring property taxes elicit backlash among homeowners
"People hate the property tax because it's visible," says economist Andrew Chamberlain of the Tax Foundation, a research group in Washington, D.C. "One of the great ironies of tax policies is that people hate the tax that's easiest to see, not necessarily the one that costs them most." State and local governments collect more in sales taxes than in property taxes.
