Want to scare a politician for Halloween? Try dressing up as an upset taxpayer, perhaps carrying a pitchfork or torch.
After required Truth in Taxation hearings this year that allowed protests by angry taxpayers, about one of every four cities, counties or other local governments that had proposed property tax hikes reduced them or scrapped them all together.
It is further evidence — according even to supporters of the Truth in Taxation law — that it works maybe too well to keep taxes low, spooking politicians into avoiding tax hikes that may be justified.