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So sad that people who have high-value property have to pay more than $7.79 in taxes. Who will lift this terrible burden from them?
That's not really fair.
First off, we're talking thousands of dollars per year, not $7.79. Secondly, the value of the property doesn't matter unless they're selling (or getting a reverse mortgage or something else). If it's someone who bought a house to live in and they aren't planning to sell, it doesn't matter if it's valued at $50k or $500k or $5M... except where property taxes are concerned.
And if some family in Georgia is used to paying, and has budgeted for, $5000-$7500 per year in taxes, and suddenly that rises to $7000-$10500 because of something they have no control over and aren't benefitting from for the above reasons, that is bad.
From the article
Oh, okay, so them owning a significantly more valuable piece of property to pass down to their kids is okay if they aren't planning on selling it. And, I mean, if they decide to sell it anyway, we should be understanding that that wasn't their plan. They can keep paying that $7.79, so sorry.
Sure, and railing against those property tax rebates is one thing, but as what you quoted says, that's not the norm. Property taxes are a problem across the country right now, not just in Georgia (as the article notes), and other states are also passing measures to help.
This also is part of a homestead exemption, so it's not stopping people who own multiple properties from paying higher taxes.
A family owning a home and passing it on to their kids is not a problem, and I'm not sure why you're framing it as one. It's also not like it's just one family's home that's rising in value while everything else stagnates; that hypothetical family who chooses to sell is not getting rich from the decision. Either they're moving to renting, and paying high rental rates, or they're buying elsewhere and paying the current market value of that property.