I don't know if you're asking to be tongue-in-cheek, but this is a salient question. Normally, government buildings ("Held for public use") don't pay property

I don't know if you're asking to be tongue-in-cheek, but this is a salient question. Normally, government buildings ("Held for public use") don't pay property taxes. This can be a serious issue in municipalities where large portions of the non-residential real estate is held by a higher-level governmental entity, such as Jackson, Mississippi, where the state government makes up a large bulk of the functional real estate, and thus does not contribute to the municipal tax base (while still making substantial infrastructural demands). [0] NY state example: https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/local-government/publications/pdf/propertytax_exemptions.pdf https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/local-government/publicati...