Do you think that all property rights that are secured by our government should be secured by paying fees every few years in order to continue to own that property?
Based on your logic everyone should have to pay fees in order to continue to own the things that they worked for or paid for with their own money. In other words, if you don’t pay a fee to secure your Gibson Guitar, then anyone who sees it should be free to steal it.
Abstract ones, absolutely.
Because it is not securing a physical object.
It is a limited time prohibition on someone else duplicating something.
Something that may in fact be irretrievably lost if care is not made to preserve it.
Are you seriously not capable of comprehending that there is a critical difference between the two? Or that preserving things is as important as perpetual profit.
There is a balance that should be maintained.
Hostility to that balance is why most of A. A. Milne’s plays are forever lost.
And yet that is also true. Property Tax. Both for RealEstate as well as everyday property.
if you don’t pay a fee to secure your home, your car, your hunting permit, your driving permit.......