Taxes: Income vs. Property

I read an article last Sunday in the Star Tribune (the one that I got for $1 for a year, and have saved oh-so-much-more in the coupons that have come out of it!) about property taxes paid in Minnesota and this Voss report. In this article, Tice talks about "modest incomes" (between $10,000 and $45,000, which is where my husband and I fall), and how they pay 5% of their income in property taxes. Right away, I thought something was wrong with this article.