Why do property taxes go up?

[Nicholas Daniels]

So I’m 21 looking into buying my first property. It seems like property taxes generally keep going up, but why?

Where is the money actually going? I know this might sound like a dumb question, but if our taxes keep going up why are the services we are provided seemingly not getting much better? I look at the schools and the roads in my area (Michigan) and they’re **** generally. So why do taxes keep going up?

This might be more of an individual question based on someone’s own circumstances. But it seems to be happening everywhere based on the Zillow data when I look at pretty much every state.