Mr. Svendson (Skin in the Game) repeats a position often appearing in these letters that is simply wrong and then confuses it with paying Federal income tax: only the 50% paying tax will pay increased property taxes. There is no connection between liability for property and income taxes. If he means people that don't own real property won't pay real estate taxes, then he must believe all landlords are kind and don't pass increased property taxes on by raising rents. The only (large) group that escapes the property tax are our homeless.  I, for one, don't envy them this benefit.