Economist William S. Peirce writes in his Nov. 5 guest column (“It’s economics: Why Ohio must keep the property tax”) that, “All three major taxes [general sales, income and property] damage the economy.”

I’d like to see the economy without government services, without public education, without the police or fire departments, without roads or sewer or water or other infrastructure. It wouldn’t be much of an economy - it would be an absolute train wreck.

Yet we’re headed in that direction, since our one-party state legislature refuses to address soaring property taxes, continues to underfund public education, and hands out tax cuts to the wealthy at every opportunity. All the bleating in the world by these self-serving politicians may not stop an amendment to abolish property taxes by the

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