Commies?? Hate to break it to you, but The Cold War's been over for nigh-on 20 years. I know it's hard to break the rigorous training of duck-n-cover and "Evil Iron Curtain" that was hammered into your head.

The reason the tax burden has shifted so heavily onto working famililies is because of the Corporate Community's unwillingness to pay any portion of thier Billions in profits. It's gotten to the point where corporations actually demand tribute* from taxpayers through thier governments in the form of "rebates" and "incentives" to remain in a locality. The upshot of which translates to "If you don't fork over the dough, we're pulling stakes and moving to China." sort of ransom note.
F-cksake, do some digging into how much of the WSP budget goes to providing private security and motorcades for CEO's.
Don't blame your high property taxes on social programs, blame them on the outfit that just bought up 500 acres of prime commercial real estate tax-free and whose crack legal team has your local government bent over a barrel and buried in money thanks to 3 decades of "it provides jobs" bullsh-t.
Our current government and tax system system is the direct result of Big Business and to say otherwise is to be obtuse to the point of being declared legally insane.

Yeah The Cold War's over, but with what's been happening the last seven years at home and abroad, it's starting to look like the good guys lost.



* Tribute. Remember that word? Where you pay some high-n-mighty all you got and NOT get flogged in return?