Oh what bullshit. Ya'll don't pay property taxes for your public education, infrastrastructure or public safety....
Since this is the basis for the rest of your text diarrhea I only need comment on this portion.
According to NC law, since it's in our state Constitution that every child gets access to public education, the state pays for base teacher's salaries and student transportation. The local school districts pay for school infrastructure, administrative staff, and in many cases incentive payments to teachers. These of course are funded by the local portion of sales taxes but most importantly by property taxes. It varies by county, but most counties have consolidated school districts. My own county has a central school board and administrative staff to mange something like six high schools, 15 middle schools and 40 or so elementary schools. With all that consolidation there are huge costs savings but also resources to better serve students with special needs, be it physical, emotional, problem kids, or academically gifted. We have a central high school that serves students heading for technical careers along with specialized AP classes that couldn't be filled in an individual high school. For example my son was able to take an advanced computer networking class that only attracted 6 students, out of county-wide high school enrollment of about 8000.
Some of the more rural counties have intra-consolidated school districts. Some of of our smaller municipal governments consolidate services under regional authorities.
Most municipalities contract out services such as trash collection, sewer and water, street maintenance, street lighting and recycling. Many of the larger cities that can justify a municipal service staff put those services up for bid in three year rotations. The public staff has to compete with a private enterprise that wants their jobs!
With regards to public safety, the state has a "trooper" system to police state-owned highways (which are most of the roads) as well as an investigative agency and some of the best crime labs in the country. In fact they've recently been awarded international recognition. Local counties has sheriffs and local municipalities can elect to have their own police forces. Most towns use their County Sheriff's office instead of having their own police force by paying for a small satellite office along with the salaries of deputies that are dedicated to within the town boundaries.
And of course as I said before we are right-to-work, so no-one is forced to join a union. Public employees that don't do their jobs are fired as easily as a private contractor.
So consolidation, work ethic, and efficiency is why we enjoy such low tax rates. Compare that to the Northeast where every po-dunk town has its own school system, its own police department, heck my home town had its own electrical power department.