In the immortal words of the Count de Money, “The people are revolting.” (“You got that right,” replies the king. “They stink on ice.”) Nobody is happy about their property taxes.
I know I’m not.
(Part of my beef with my local property taxes is purely procedural, i.e., that the techno-incompetents who run my little semirural taxing jurisdiction have an online payment system that will not process a payment of more than $2,000, a sum that is ...
Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.
