I recently turned 70. I’m for not paying any property taxes past 70.
Actually, I get a significant reduction in my property taxes here in Dallas because I am a senior. At the same time, because I no longer feel required to invest significant portions of my income and because of the growth of my investments in value over the years, I have more spendable inflow of cash that I have at any previous time. I suppose the logic is that many people have less income at that time, but that isn’t always the case.
I don’t know that I’d go for that but I’d certainly support freezing them at age 50 so retirees don’t end up having to sell their property because they can’t keep up with the increases in taxes as their incomes freeze or decline.
Our VFD’s are generally funded via donations. The towns they are located in fund the maintenance and new equipment through sales tax revenues and fund raisers in many if not most communities.