Property taxes aren't sales taxes, they are more like fees. Used to fund libraries, roads, schools, public transportation, all the stuff that makes a city better plus cops and, well, you can read your millage paper to see what it's spent on. If there was not property tax the sales tax would have to be so high, and that is regressive. I do think the exemption should be higher and rates higher so that lower priced houses paid less to nothing and the million dollar houses paid more, but as it stands I get my money's worth from that particular tax.