Abstract
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” No one has offered a simpler rationale for the American tax system than the former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Despite their inevitability, taxes remain universally dreaded and misunderstood by Americans, but none more so than property taxes. Without property taxes, life as everyday Americans understand it would cease to exist. From streets to schools, from libraries to fire departments, the budgets of indispensable public services, which enable communities to flourish, would collapse.
Recommended Citation
Isabel Fenoglio,
House of Cards: An Examination of Missouri’s Inconsistent Tax Assessment Regime and the Questionable Role of the Court as Arbiter,
90 Mo. L. Rev.
(2026)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol90/iss4/9