I'm not especially well-informed on these matters, but from the outside looking in, raising property taxes looks to me less like punishment or force, both of wh

I'm not especially well-informed on these matters, but from the outside looking in, raising property taxes looks to me less like punishment or force, both of which are kind of indulgent as terms, than like a community of people using democratically-created and democratically-approved non-violent means to align resources and incentives. Being a property owner doesn't exempt someone from democracy.