...eventual demise of property taxation. In 1956, one expert delivered a prospective funeral oration: . . . Over the next two decades , I would expect to see the property tax all but wither away. Relative decline is a foregone conclusion, but I would go beyond this and predict that In absolute...

...eventual demise of property taxation. In 1956, one expert delivered a prospective funeral oration: ...Over the next two decades, I would expect to see the property tax all but wither away. Relative decline is a foregone conclusion, but I would go beyond this and predict that in absolute...

...eventual demise of property taxation. In 1956, one expert delivered a prospective funeral oration: ...Over the next two decades, I would expect to see the property tax all but wither away. Relative decline is a foregone conclusion, but I would go beyond this and predict that in absolute...

...eliminated long ago. . . ."i2 Twenty-five years later an eminent economist predicted: "Glancing ahead now, over the next two decades, I would expect to see the...terms property taxation is headed for oblivion."" As it happened, between 1954— the latest year for which statistical data were available at the time...