He says that in New York and Boston, the US's most expensive property markets, property taxes run as high as 1.5 % of the market value of the property. Under these circumstances, the owner of a US $ 100 million house pays US $ 1.5 million per year in taxes.
他舉例說明，美國在房價最高的紐約、波士頓一帶，房屋稅的稅率可高達 1.5 %，也就是總價 1 億元的房子，每年須繳 150 萬元的稅金。