Stealing your property after several years because of unpaid property taxes is a VERY recent development - within the last several decades.
I don't like renting my paid-off property from the government. Do you?
“...Stealing your property after several years because of unpaid property taxes
is a VERY recent development - within the last several decades...”
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That is just not true.
I have read many historic newspapers from the 1860’s
and the pages are filled with tax sales and auctions at the courthouse.
Property taxes existed in the colonial times. I'm not sure what they did if you didn't pay. But it's probably more lenient now than it was back then.
The view back then is that government provided a valuable service in protecting your property. Thus it was only natural that property owners should be expected to pay for that service.
That's why I don't confuse terms and call "property taxes" by the name "rent" like you or "theft" like others. It's neither. It's a tax. Scripture says pay your taxes. It has a history in our country from the very beginning. The founders fathers were okay with it. I am too.