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Policymakers should encourage intergenerational cooperation.

Due to their regressive nature, raising state and local sales taxes should not be the first choice for increasing tax revenues. 

States and localities should include services in the taxable base to reduce regressivity and improve neutrality. 

Exemptions from state retail sales taxes should be narrowly designed to reduce their regressive nature and avoid pyramiding. 

Property tax relief should be equitable, cost-effective, and targeted to homeowners with low and moderate incomes burdened by their property tax bill.

Prior to finalizing annual budget decisions, localities should inform taxpayers of the property tax rate required to maintain revenues at the same level as the prior year. 

Congress should mandate the use of the Supplemental Poverty Meas

Property taxes should be equitable. 

Policymakers should preserve the existing stock and expand the availability of affordable, accessible, safe housing, particularly for those with the most severe cost burdens.

Policymakers should increase the availability of subsidized housing in mixed-use, walkable communities that promote aging in place.