Like many on this site I am a home owner but I will never "own" this property, even when it is paid off due to property taxes. Folks, there is not one iota of our lives that government has not intruded on and shackled us.
Here's an example, call your cell phone provider and start going over all those "extra's" in your monthly bill that are not specifically spelled out in your statement..tax, tax, tax, tax...We recently went over our verizon bill with a fine tooth comb and discovered seven unique taxes on our cell lines (ranging from fifteen cents up to nine dollars).
In my state, vehicles need to be registered every twelve months. WHY? I own the damn thing, it has not changed hands/owners! Why re-register the same damn data?
My electric now has a new tax of just "surcharge". My county is trying to force me onto a sewage system I DO NOT need let alone the very, very rural area I live in.
Government, gov...gov, more gov; thousands upon thousands of laws, new regulations springing up daily, new nanny state "guidelines" on what we should eat or worse yet, schools trying to tell us what we can feed our kids...I can keep going, but that is just preaching to the choir. Anyone who believes we are "free" is sadly mistaken. Its not long now before border fences WILL be constructed; to keep us IN!
/rant off.
We live in a small town in Pa. Not much going for it except low crime, lots of churches, gun-friendly, and very low taxes. Our house is over 100 years old, over 2000sf, and the property tax is $350 a year.
If people would shop around more they’d find affordable homes. The trade-off is, they might not find the job they want, or keep the one they have. So they go on paying 10x, or 20x, what I pay in property tax, to keep the job they need to pay the tax...