“When they can tax some property you own.. THEN you are renting it from the government..”
Indeed they can and they do. It’s always been that way. At least we don’t have a house payment on top of paying prop/school taxes, which amount to about $1000 per year combined.
We just paid our prop taxes last week....Total for the year is $490.45 and that’s for 7 acres of Sugar Maples surrounded by 1700 acres of State Land with a creek running next to our house. I cut enough firewood off our property each year to pay the taxes and we have free-run through the state land for hunting, fishing and hiking. What few neighbors we do have are ALL like-minded gun-toting Conservatives.
Pretty low “rent” if I say so myself.
Same result..