[keepitsimplestupid]

No, just steal our property rights is all. All taxes steal our property rights. Sales and income taxes steal the things that we have created, while land tax only "steals" the natural resources that we only have because the Feds conquered them for us.

[blackdog]

I love it when the alligator eats the one who's been feeding it before me.

The AMT will hit liberals first, because they not only move to, but celebrate high local, city, and state taxed areas.

My gut check however tells me that this press release is not spontanious banter from the subject. It has been fed to the press with a motive. Let's wait and see what it is.

[keepitsimplestupid]

But what really matters is that the primary function of the state is to protect our property, especially our landed property. That is why we should support the government with property taxes, especially land taxes.

[ancient_geezer]

Sales and income taxes steal the things that we have created, while land tax only "steals" the natural resources that we only have because the Feds conquered them for us.

If one wants to see the end of the United States, he may hold that opinion.

Others believed otherwise in drafting the Constitution, and the Amercian people in ratifying it:

Constitution for the United States of America:

• Article VI: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

• Article I Section 8: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises,
  to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States;
  but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; "

• Article I Section 8: "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof."

With full knowledge of what they were doing:

Federalist #12:

• "A nation cannot long exist without revenues. Destitute of this essential support, it must resign its independence, and sink into the degraded condition of a province."

Federalist #39:

• "The difference between a federal and national government, as it relates to the OPERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT, is supposed to consist in this, that in the former the powers operate on the political bodies composing the Confederacy, in their political capacities; in the latter, on the individual citizens composing the nation, in their individual capacities. On trying the Constitution by this criterion, it falls under the NATIONAL, not the FEDERAL character;"

Federalist #45:

• "The change relating to taxation may be regarded as the most important; and yet the present [Continental] sic Congress have as complete authority to REQUIRE of the States indefinite supplies of money for the common defense and general welfare, as the future [Constitutional] Congress will have to require them of individual citizens;

 

You may not like it, but Anarchy is your alternative.