Though the market already "encourages" people on its own... the property tax just forces 'em. What I mean by "encourages" is that if I'm a little old retired l

Though the market already "encourages" people on its own... the property tax just forces 'em. What I mean by "encourages" is that if I'm a little old retired lady living in a two-million-dollar cottage in the fanciest part of town then I already have a huge incentive to sell it off to some rich dude and go live in a half-million-dollar cottage somewhere else -- it's the $1.5 million I could pocket in that transaction.