>>20685070 pb
>property tax
It fluctuates around 1/3 the cost of rent. Sometimes rent goes up, sometimes down, but that's the ballpark.
This is what incorporated means. The town is literally a corporation. They bought that land cheap and now they sell you a contract in which you agree to pay them whatever tax they decide. Read your deed, it's in there.
The "mayor" is the CEO.
It's just like a HOA corporation. Exactly the same. But it's been framed as "government".
HOAs call themselves governments too sometimes.