Posted on 05/01/2015 12:43:00 PM PDT by GraceG
Is it just me or does it seem to me that inthe last 10 years maybe longer that the overwhelming pressure in society is to become a "rental" based economy vs. an "ownership" economy?
We see this everywhere, from local businessees offering leasing options for people wanting to buy items like TV's, Furniture, and Appliances, to propsals being made in government to collect "taxes" on miles drven on cars.
Over a hundred years ago, Property taxes were the first step to establishing the idea that one doesn't even truly own the land under thier own feet that they may have bought and paid for, but they still have to pay tribute to a central "authority" that spends their money, spends too much and then asks for more. And if you don't pay this tribute they will send in a collector and take it away from you as if it were a car on lease that you stopped paying for. Property tax was first viewed as a "good thing' to pay for education and local governments, but slowly and surely like all the toys in in the progressive toybox, these toys mutated into absolute monsters of inevitability.
Now due to the rampant inevitable inflation caused by having a fiat economy we see this concept spread even into the private sector (increasingly so when big corportations and big government collude) where credit and debt are pushed and people get new credit cards to cover the debts incurred on old ones. The Honest Private sector is also pushed into this as if they don't start moving down this path they will wither and die due to the pressures of increased regulations, unfair competition with crony businesses, and a customer bnase that has to make do with less and can only pay with the promise of incurrred debt.
Even if you live your economic life frugally you will end up with mailboxes full of credit card applications begging you to open lines of credit so that you can be turned into a sucker to be milked slowly as you live your life.
I was raised right, and taught right in a small town country school and my economics teacher taught me that credit has to be used responsibibly. Do they not teach this in all the other schools, perhapse they do, but the overwhelming life experiance is that if you want something now you can either rent it in one form or another, or make someone else pay for it via a government graft program like food stamps or subsidized housing.
The whole progressive mantra seems to be that it is better to have a society that "rents" from government or government enabled businesses, ie cronies, than it does have people who actually own and earn their way by being responsible.
Because if the people are allowed to be responsible, the government itself cannot be irresponsible. If the people are encoutraged to be irresponsible, they will not care or notice the government being the same.
"Death taxes" are another example of this, property has been paid for and taxed, and yet the middle man of government demands to get between two generations passing a legacy down. One generation cannot pass the torch down the line to another without the flame growing dimmer as the rent demands to be paid to those who have done nothing to deserve it except stand in the middle.
Of course the progressives said that the younger generation doesn't "deserve" it, and they use the example of a super rich family with spoiled kids and the masses seem placted by this kneejerk tuned response.
But what about the small business or family farm that is passed down with the children toiling for years unpaid to help out only to be told they have to pay the "rent" to the government on that property, isn't this indirect theft of labour BY the Government Landlords?
And it is not just taxes either that build this tolerance for the rental economy, the private sector having to deal with customer starved of money by the government have to resort to renting things in order to get by.
Cars, were one of the first items that people stoped buying via loan or outright and started "leasing them" as the costs of cars exploded due to labour costs (unions), rental property has exploded recently too, as one simply cannot simply buy a house anymore unless one lives the life of an economic ascetic.
Now computers, Tvs, applicances, and other goods can be "rented" or leased, and if the government could find a way to lease you the air you breathe, they would and can and probably are planning that right now in the name of the "greater good"....
How long before owning anything is illegal and one can only lease? (isn't this the endgame of "communism", because if the state owns everything, everone is a tennant.)
And if you don't pay the state with your money and instead take from the state, you still will be paying with your undying loyalty (see welfare state).
Apologies if it is boring.
Remember “Real estate” doesn’t mean land that is “real” it means “Royal land” as in belonging to the king or government.
And don’t forget the computer software that has to be rented (e.g. most Adobe products) and all of the stuff tied to “the cloud”.
Some things make sense to rent, Term Life Insurance as opposed to Whole Life, for instance. We are renting our home right now because we are not sure yet where we want to live and want to build up a sizeable down payment.
Even the cars that are not leased now, are assumed tobe sold on financing, and for long periods (72 months), which is more like a lease with option to buy.
The leasing options and layaway plans reappeared after the credit crisis... many people have not climbed out of it yet. Particularly in communities that have many homes underwater...
The pressure is still on to have as many people in debt as possible.
don’t pay your property tax and you will find out who really owns the land.
I know some folks that moved here to get better paying jobs and have no intention of staying once their kids are out of high school and they do not want to worry about selling or the market collapsing. They also do not want to pay $400,000 for a 2200 sq foot house that costs $200,000 any where else. Can’t say I blame them.
Well, doing away with the concept of property would certainly make this whole Socialism thing a whole lot easier to implement.
[ Well, doing away with the concept of property would certainly make this whole Socialism thing a whole lot easier to implement. ]
BINGO!
This is why it has taken so much longer to take down the United States into Socialism (neo-Fuedalism) than other countries around the world.
It really should not be possible for a person to forfeit his property for failure to pay tax on it. THAT truly relegated everyone to tenant status.
Lots of folks find that out.
Its worked well in the cities where renters far outnumber owners.
All cell phones are rented too.
I would even go so far as to suggest that social, political, and peer pressure to "own" everything you use in life may even drive up the prices of many things. For example, you'd be surprised at how much less it costs on a monthly basis to rent a home than to buy the exact same home, in many cases.
this generation doesn’t look at ownership as a virtue, but rather as a burden. Why buy your smartphone when you can rent it and always get the latest and greatest? Music, movies, just rent what you like. People don’t care about being underwater on a car in a year or two, they just want what they want and only care about having enough money to make the monthly payments. You can have all the channels and fastest interwebs if you can just make the monthly payment.
They only thing of paying cash for the necessities of life, like McDs, lottery tickets, Starbucks, beer, and pot.
devaluation of the currency to pay for the massive government of Empire, government debt and wars of control and conquest led to the creation of feudalism in Europe
Similar conditions exist in the USA today. The creation of the Federal Reserve, and constant devaluation of the currency, manufactured inflation, fake interest rates, debt monetization just mean that those connected to government get the first crack at wealth and that all progressive government schemes are paid for - at the expense of the middle-class wages and property.
Debt is leverage.
Responsibility, honoring that debt and extending that debt is a business decision and is therefore priced into the cost.
Some people know how to leverage debt.
Even with these necessities of life, people often charge these on credit cards, rather than paying cash.
Ownership can be a burden in many cases ... Especially when you’re dealing with a major asset that limits your flexibility to relocate.
“don’t pay your property tax and you will find out who really owns the land.”
...and don’t forget, that in some areas of the US that tax (which is effectively a “rental” can approach 6% of the value. A year!
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