Posted on 08/20/2025 6:25:05 AM PDT by C210N
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia advocated for the abolition of property taxes and described health insurance as a big "scam."
"We need to completely abolish property taxes. It forces us to pay ‘rent’ to the government on property that we own, but if we don’t pay property taxes, the property that we own gets taken away from us. That should never happen in a free country," Greene declared in a post on X.
"Secondly, health insurance is a giant scam that has become completely unaffordable. And it doesn’t make any sense and I don’t know anyone, and I mean anyone, that supports the current healthcare system in the United States," she continued.
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That I agree with
That's why it's called Obamacare
And it’s Medicare that is distorting the market. I have no idea how to fix it.
“… you could have a single-payer government run healthcare system. I’m not sure what other alternatives exist.”
Japan has a hybrid system, where the insurance is nationalized, but the providers are a mix of private and local government clinics and hospitals. You can also buy supplemental insurance to help pay for what the insurance doesn’t cover or to pay for treatment at better places.
It seems to work better than the fully nationalized health systems in places like Britain and Canada.
US healthcare is the best in the world
Then tell the govt to quit mandating specific treatments
From her antisemtism to touting a the American worker without including the American businessman, I don't think Congressman Greene is a serous thinker..
See Irwin Schiff's "The Great Income tax Hoax."
Even if you rent, you still have to live somewhere. A property tax on the owner of a house is a direct tax. When a renter is involved, it becomes an indirect tax since someone else pays the renter's taxes to the government.
Property taxes do not violate the Constitution; the illegal enforcement of the income tax does.
Property tax and sales tax is IMHO the fairest way to tax. That is because everyone pays it in some form.
The larger the house, the more you pay. The higher the value of the home the more you pay. Meaning a waterfront 1000 square foot house on the ocean or lakefront pays more than a 2000 sq ft house away from the water.
The more you spend at the store. The more sales tax you pay.
This goes with automobiles too. The guy driving a brand new Porsche turbo pays more than a guy driving a 1990 Accord.
The same for food in restaurants. You pay more tax on a $200 dinner out than you do for a sandwich. Yet, you pay the same percentage of the value of the meal.
She’s something a nut, but she’s right on both counts.
“Property taxes is the modern-day equivalent of making us serfs.”
Good in theory.
But we need some way to fund government services.
Figure out a better way
Vote for better local and state leaders, but at least it’s better than giving control to FedGov.
I spent 2 days in the hospital and had a heart procedure. The hospital charged $123,000. Medicare paid $11,000, and I paid $600.
Irrespective of paying for local services, there is a fundamental problem of sovereignty regarding home property taxes.
You have a ‘Certificate of deed” to your land/home, that gives you ‘color’ of ownership, not outright sovereign ownership.
The base ownership, from which your deed derives, is held by the county. The book#, parcel#, etc is your piece of the pie in the County’s block ownership, their allodial ownership.
Without the above, the cities and towns (and county) would have no jurisdiction to tax your home and land it is on.
This is similar to the arrangement of land and property ownership 400 years ago between King and Lords, including dukes, earls, barons.
Perhaps in a better world with mainly catastrophic medical insurance, it'd be more like The hospital charged $12,000. Insurance paid $11,500, and you paid $500.
“Even if you rent, you still have to live somewhere. “
“Best to view house ownership as Shelter, not an investment. The 2008 housing crash wiped out many….and recent statistics show a huge housing slowdown down, maybe time for the cycle to repeat?
All that said, abolishing property tax would most certainly boost housing sales, more renters would become house owners.”
I view home ownership as a blessing. On September 8th, 1995 Mrs. BBB333 & I broke ground on our very small home (1,083 sq.ft. according to the MT State property tax devision). We moved in three days before Thanksgiving and took our first shower on Thanksgiving day.
It used to be difficult to get to our property — 18 miles from Main Street and the last 3.9 miles were on rutted and pot-holed gravel — over the years our surrounding ‘neighborhoods’ have improvesd the road to the south which includes changing the slope of the two worst ‘hills’ from 10% to 5% and then the county paved the road.
Our subdivision has 3.2 miles of roads for 55 lots (48 with homes, seven raw land) over 125 acres. This summer we completed our eight year paving project (no RID or SID involved) just property owners paying $1,800 per year for eight years for our HOA dues. Now that the paving is complete we pay $550 per year for snow removal, etc.
We now live 4.5 miles from Main Street and there are no gravel roads.
Yesterday I added up the total amount we have paid over 33 years (we purchased the lot in ‘92)...and IF we were to sell today at the current assessed value (the great State of Montana sent us a post card last last month blessing us with a seventh digit) we could walk away — after paying a 20% capital gains tax on all dollars over our basis plus our $450,000 tax exemption AND all property tax/HOA fees for 33 years and 100% of our loan payments/insurance for the last 30 years — with $210,000.
Renters can’t do that.
Yesterday afternoon we walked our cats on our acreage and I looked to the East at the Bridger mountains where we live ‘on the step’ of, then to the North where we can easily see 50+ miles before the mountains arise, then to the West where we can see 50+ miles, again before the mountains arise, and then to the South where we can only see 30+/- miles to the mouth of the Gallatin canyon which pokes it’s way through the Spanish Peaks of the Gallatin Range...
I view home ownership as a blessing.
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