All personal property and home real estate property taxes should be eliminated. Personal property taxes are just the government telling you that you don't own the property they do and if you don't pay them they will take it from you and rent it to someone else. Sales taxes are more fair as you don't have to purchase an item. Sales taxes can be placed on real estate to be paid at the time of sale and can be done each time the property is sold. Business real estate might have to be handled differently. 
The government staying within a budget would help tremendously.