They are approaching it wrong.
just pass a tax on land.
Looking a the scale of that map - $10 an acre wouldn’t cost many people much. But the feds would be paying $millions.
“They are approaching it wrong.
just pass a tax on land.
Looking a the scale of that map - $10 an acre wouldn’t cost many people much. But the feds would be paying $millions.”
We tried, that Ohio even went so far as to send its agents into the Federal bank to extract the money and leave.
While Washington D.C. Claims the hypocritical power to tax our state’s it refuses the likewise possibly of being taxed itself, on the grounds that “the power to tax is the power to destroy”, and if the states have the power to destroy federal institutions and property in their state with taxes then that violates the separation of powers.
~20 years later under the tyrant Lincoln Washington proceeded to tax all the State banks out of existence. Washington D.C. is no stranger to double standards. (Ironically enough North Dakota is also the only state that still has its own bank.)