re: Mississippi just eliminated state income taxes.

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Be specific.

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Effective Property Tax Rate:
Hawaii: .31%
Alabama: .4%
Colorado: .55%

Here’s Floridas plan to eliminate property taxes completely:
Realtor.com: DeSantis Plan to Eliminate Property Taxes

La is still trying to figure out the brake tag thing. They'll get it.

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Effective Property Tax Rate: Hawaii: .31% Alabama: .4% Colorado: .55%

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If you want to use "effective rate across a whole state", Mississippi is already in the lowest 1/3 of the nation in property taxes at .77%. But using effective rate is dumb. Because every county taxes at a different millage rate. And a mill is worth a different amount in every county.

There are 82 counties in Mississippi. There are only 22 counties with a lower millage rate than the county I'm an elected official in. And most of those are in the delta where there aren't but 15 or 20 miles of roads and have small school systems. We have two school districts in our county. One 4 A and one 3 A and 950 miles of roads to maintain

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If you want to use "effective rate across a whole state", Mississippi is already in the lowest 1/3 of the nation in property taxes at .77%. But using effective rate is dumb. Because every county taxes at a different millage rate. And a mill is worth a different amount in every county.

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You asked for examples of states with low or no property taxes, I gave you multiple states

You asked for specifics and I showed you an article on how a large state with no income taxes is planning to do away property taxes as well.

You’re just being obstinate.

Damn, shockingly Louisiana has the lowest property taxes in the nation, by far.

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1. Louisiana
0.18% of assessed home value
$243 property tax per year based on state median home value
$54,216 median household income

2. Hawaii
0.26% of assessed home value
$1,324 property tax per year based on state median home value
$81,711 median household income

3. Alabama
0.33% of assessed home value
$398 property tax per year based on state median home value
$51,014 median household income

4. Delaware
0.43% of assessed home value
$1,078 property tax per year based on state median home value
$67,249 median household income

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I'm still waiting for someone to step up and explain how they plan to fund eliminating property taxes. It's not like those expenses will just go away because you don't collect property taxes to fund them. You gonna give it a shot?

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Even local governments have a frickton of waste and fraud. Find those areas of waste. That would probably be step one, but that would mean the voters would have to actually be more involved w/ finding the waste and abuse.

Then the transition to using sales taxes would be way easier.

For clarity's sake, I'm against all taxation. I realize that in reality, that isn't going to happen, but some taxes are better than others. The idea that you could lose your house that's paid off because you don't pay rent to the governmnet is absolutely fricking insane to me.

Louisiana would need a new Constitution that is akin to the States you referenced. Unfortunately, politicians will not allow such an endeavor see the light of the day

The advantage of property taxes, and I reside in Texas, is they don't cycle to Austin and returned with some goofy formula funding other areas of the State. Our school taxes are now frozen based upon our age - we still pay city and county taxes

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How about we look at the other side of the balance sheet and spend less? Like a responsible business or household ?

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I agree, but this unfortunately isn't the way it works. States with no income taxes generally have higher sales and property taxes.