I’m still not clear on “property tax”…
Why do I have to pay tax on something I own?
That sounds like… Rent to the state… that sounds an awful lot like something Karl Marx wrote… actually, it IS what Karl Marx wrote….
But that’s just me thinking again…
When we lived in upstate NY, we had paid our house off five years before we escaped. Our property and school tax totalled $10K per year - we were paying the equivalent ~$900 a month (we paid biannually) for the right to live in our home.
We love NC where we live now, but we pay ~$100/year per car that we own for the right to keep our vehicle registrations - that’s a property tax above our annual registration.
Yes, my feeble mind feel better paying a little bit for the right to register our cars than it did paying for the right to live in a home we owned, but the principles are exactly the same and exactly as you point out - the Marxist principle of paying rent to the State.
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