Our counties tax us to pay for services based on how much they assume we can get for our homes if we sell it -- and not based on the costs of those services. From inflation or reappraisals, or if we do anything to our homes that the county says adds value to our homes, then the tax bill can be adjusted, whether the services improved or not.

Every piece of proposed or approved legislation on property taxes is wrong. It’s all been just a Band-Aid after Band-Aid over time, and we keep ending up at this same spot.

The glaring error in all this is that the government still retains the ability to leverage our homes and use tax liens against us. Now Cuyahoga County is considering selling those liens to a friendly, benevolent collection agency?

The only way to stop all this is to eliminate prop

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