Someone I know who studied tax law said the cruelest tax of all is property tax, because you essentially rent your own property and can be evicted for not paying rent.
This person is not from the United States; I doubt that would be taught here.
It gets even better, and more cruel.
The same government that makes it hard sometimes to evict people from rentals will have its agents show up with guns in a heartbeat to boot you off your paid-for property.