Sucks to live in a house that’s paid off but I still have to pay for it or face losing it.
Absolutely! Property taxes are never paid off. The government is always the landlord. And...Yeah! It sucks!
Personally, my husband and I, when we retired, sold our condo and moved to the county with the cheapest property taxes in the state (likely the nation) and bought much less house than we could afford. We live comfortably but modestly. The primary reason was so that we could avoid property taxes.
Two things just bug me about property taxes and I am exasperated that other conservative fail to “get it” :
1) The principle that one can never really be the owner of the property. The government is **always** the landlord.
2) Most property taxes go to support a socialist-entitlement of government schooling that is utterly godless in socialist cultural, political, and religious worldview. Children **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise. And...Children risk learning to be comfortable with socialism. Why? Because any government and voting mob that is powerful enough to give them tuition-free socialist schooling is powerful enough to give them **lots** of “free” stuff.