Why we shouldn’t be helping Tucson’s poor buy a house As I read Steve Emerine’s fine column in Inside Tucson Business last week explaining Tucson City Council’s latest and greatest ill-timed idea for a new tax, a feeling of déjà vu swept over me. I read that the city hatched a proposal to tax new homes on each transfer in perpetuity. Only new homes would be saddled with this tax. Older homes would not. Would it apply to existing homes that are annexed? Don’t know, but probably not. |