[sauropod]

Are you sure about what you are posting? Do you own property?

There is no way to not pay property taxes in almost all of the US unless you do some kind of funky conservation easement (which is another bad idea).

Property taxes trump property rights every time. Don't pay them and you lose "your" property.

I don't like them but that is what is. Don't try and pretend they do not exist.

[Mark was here]

Notice in the story how once all the liens were paid off the now-homeless family received a check for 60 grand.

Property taxes started out as liens placed upon the property by the property owners as a way to pay for government infrastructure, such as the police station, courthouse, morgue, forestation etc. stuff necessary for a society...

The problem with property taxes is that non-property owners got to vote on them, just as non-smokers vote to raise taxes on cigarettes.

In theory anyway property taxes could expire if the voters failed to tax themselves and let the millages expire. If the millages expired the government would have no claim to your property.

I would favor a system where everyone who voted to raise a tax was faced with the same liability. The reality of the property tax is not that you are paying the government rent, but that as a group the voters decided to place liens on their property to support their government.