New York Campaigning for Higher Property Taxes

The Times and other class warriors join the ‘tax equity’ movement, but don’t count on it to help middle class homeowners.

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Brownstones at the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. Alexander Spatari/Getty Images

It’s nice to see the Times come out against high property taxes. Well, up to a point, at least. The Grey Lady is catching on to the fact that “renters and homeowners in lower-income neighborhoods end up carrying a lot of the burden” of New York City’s levies on property. The burden of taxation “frustrates” one 74-year-old homeowner at East New York, Carmen Daniels, the Times says. So is the Times pushing for property tax relief? 

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