notice in your second link
property tax collections are dropping
so raising the tax rates to capture the lost revenue while home prices are dropping is self defeating unless you are trying to empty the state.
public services need to be paid, you can either get it from captured people tied to a mortgage or you can get it from where the point of the money is being spent on sales, excise and taxes.
I can understand with you living in fairfax county that like new jersey all revenue is to be pried from a land owner but that is a holdover from the 19th century where only landholders with improvements were the only people besides whiskey makers to actually have any money to pay. Not the case anymore
thanx,
bill
