Property taxes make land owners into renters and goverments into landlords.
Exactly: this NEEDS to go viral (for instance I will repost this video to facebook, social media)
WE THE PEOPLE MUST make Property tax elimination/and reform a priority for voters.
Every so often, the local tax assessor wants to come in and "inspect"'my house (I have ignored every such request. They're free to raise my taxes based on whatever assumptions they'd like to make). If they find that I've made improvements, they will increase my property taxes. Why? Because I can afford to improve my property, and therefore I must have enough to give the government leeches "just a little bit more"?
What if I worked a second job, evenings and weekends, so that I could afford granite countertops, renovated bathrooms, and a swimming pool? By what right do these government bloodsuckers come around and take MORE of my money?
Is my house suddenly somehow costing the township more? How? What additional services am I getting? What additional costs is the township incurring because of these improvements?
Yes, yes, yes. One of the more immoral actions of government. We are not vassals.
My grandparents have to pay taxes on their property that has a rainwater run off creek going through it.
But they aren’t allowed to fill up the creek and develop it because it’s a protected wetland. However the government makes them pay the taxes on it. Total bullshit.
I agree. Property tax should be one time and at the time of sale if at all. We support our schools via property tax. Strikes me that a sales tax would be far more fair. It would also hit everyone.
Exactly.
(Only it’s a bit more like the mafia extorting money from a business. It would be a real shame if something happened to you or your house because you didn’t pay the extortion/tax.)
Income tax is what’s immoral. It’s the equivalent of indentured servitude, an only slightly more benign form of slavery. It’s the government telling you they own (a significant portion of) the fruits of your labors. And it is especially egregious because there is no effective strategy for reducing its impact during lean times.
Consider the men who were the firebrands behind the American Revolution. Almost to a man, they were entrepreneurs. They fomented revolution, not for “religious freedom” (popular myth notwithstanding), but for economic liberty.