MTG calls for property tax abolition, derides health insurance as 'giant scam'

foxnews ^ | 8/20/2025 | Alex Nitzberg

[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.

[Sirius Lee]

What are the “acceptable” forms of taxation?

Consumption/sales taxes. Tariffs, too, obviously.

[fruser1]

Georgia can’t do tariffs.

For sales tax, per my post in 57, based on GA budget numbers, it’d go from 4 to 16% for the state’s base sales tax rate.

But that’s sales and use tax only. I didn’t factor in separate line items for state fuel taxes etc..

[Sirius Lee]

For sales tax, per my post in 57, based on GA budget numbers, it’d go from 4 to 16% for the state’s base sales tax rate.

Sucks if you don't live frugally.