In theory if you own land which isn't taxed you can potentially be truly self sustaining and not need anything from outside your plot of land and nobody can ask or demand anything from you. True independence.
Once property tax is introduced no matter the land you own, you someway have to either sell a product you make for profit or work for someone for a wage. By the indirect threat of force if you don't do so.
You now have just been sneekily forced into the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_States#History
lolberts.... its called lolberts...
It used to be. Because the lie was they just went and colonised it. Found a plot, and built a cave, and settled, started farming.
No, it was sold in deeds. The area, and places. They bought a deed, they worked a debt. The state and registery auctioned. Auctioned prime location. Sold land rights and deeds to the settlers.
This goes back to Independence. It didn't change when they went out West. Of course there was a lot of space, but it was bought by deed.
Until it became taxed. When it centralised government, after the civil war, and it has been unconstitutional since. Not your land that purchase. Taxed. Until the point of seizure. A bunch of forced services, regulations, laws. Can't can't can't.
I was born into this system of slavery.
My “property” is not mine. My labor is not mine either. When men in a far off district can determine how much of my labor I get to keep, I am a slave. It has been this way since long before I was born.
And yet, I dream that one day I might be free.
Would the government, had they not taxed, have been funded by member donations, similar to a tithe?
If they were to create a GoFundMe type system for individual projects, then our money would only go where it is needed.
Potholes getting bad? Dump a few bucks into the Road Patching Fund.
Pretty sure vehicle registration adds up to a lot of money
IMO state sales tax only. Like Monaco. No income tax. no property tax. No intrusion. Only willing business has to enter the system.
Each year State gives a small proprtional pct of its GDP or tax income to Federal.
Have impeding/stopping govt intrusion and power leverage gain as number 1 priority. Everything else must accomodate and mould around that, including economic issues. If the true free market is left to its devices without usury it will always sort itself out.
I'm one of those just buy land people, not as an investment but to have a place to live, grow food, raise animals, etc.
Yes, property tax holds you to the slavery system, but the only alternative is renting or living on state land somehow.
You understand that renting is even deeper into slavery, right? I'm not sure exactly what it is you are proposing as the alternative. Is it "we're already slaves therefore we should accept it and go all in"? Strange flex.
Great, so what you do recommend then as you think owning land is a poor choice?