The Property-Tax Revolution
IdeasThe Property-Tax RevolutionStates can’t afford these cuts.By Annie LowreyIllustration by The Atlantic. At the same time, the price of gas, utilities, food, and everything else has risen, stamping out entrepreneurship, dimming the fertility rate, and making even six-figure earners feel financially strained.Homeowners have had enough, and grassroots groups have mobilized to turn private kvetching into public policy. My back-of-the-envelope accounting suggests that the measures have reduced property-tax revenue in those states by 7 percent, saving homeowners as much as $45 billion a year.This November, voters will consider a spate of similar proposals, the most radical one coming from legislators in Tallahassee, Florida.
- ▪IdeasThe Property-Tax RevolutionStates can’t afford these cuts.By Annie LowreyIllustration by The Atlantic.
- ▪At the same time, the price of gas, utilities, food, and everything else has risen, stamping out entrepreneurship, dimming the fertility rate, and making even six-figure earners feel financially strained.Homeowners have had enough, and gras
- ▪My back-of-the-envelope accounting suggests that the measures have reduced property-tax revenue in those states by 7 percent, saving homeowners as much as $45 billion a year.This November, voters will consider a spate of similar proposals,
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IdeasThe Property-Tax RevolutionStates can’t afford these cuts.By Annie LowreyIllustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock; Getty.September 13, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0011:03The United States is in the throes of the largest tax revolt in a generation, and the revolutionaries are winning.Since 2020, nationwide home values have climbed roughly 50 percent, leading property-tax bills to increase 19 percent and contributing to a 71 percent increase in the cost of homeowner’s insurance.
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