> they already do - presumably they aren't dodging taxes, and is in a progressive tax system. You mean the same progressive tax system inhabited by those prope

> they already do - presumably they aren't dodging taxes, and is in a progressive tax system. You mean the same progressive tax system inhabited by those property owners? > This is about housing, and property owners might not reach an income level where the progressive system taxed them enough to produce a surplus to cater for the poor and if so, making property specific taxes is one such way to force the burden on to them. ...seriously? My point is that it's arbitrary and unfair, and you respond by saying, well, it might be that by chance some of these people escaped paying their fair share? How is that a response?