In reality, Americans own what are called “security entitlements.”
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What’s new????
If you live in a state with property taxes, you don’t actually own the title to your home. You’re just renting it from the title granting state, and if you fail to pay your rent, you will have it repossessed.
All you really get is the right to sell it again.
In the eyes of the government, everything you get is a privilege. Not a right. Not a true possession.
“If you live in a state with property taxes, “
Which is ALL 50 states.
Property taxes existed in North America since before the U.S. was established as a nation.
I don't know where anyone gets the idea that "private property" and clear property titles free of liens and encumbrances are meaningless if you have to pay taxes on the property. Unless you are a sovereign state unto yourself, you are ALWAYS going to have a tax liability to one form of government or another.
If you live in a state with property taxes, you don’t actually own the title to your home. You’re just renting it from the title granting state, and if you fail to pay your rent, you will have it repossessed.
All you really get is the right to sell it again.
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Just like owning property in a Communist country.
It is the same with your car. If it is “paid off” you do not hold the title. You hold a “Certificate of Title”. It is a promise that the State gives to you that you are “owner”, until they want to seize it. I had the State go after me because I sold a truck my dad sold to me, for a tidy profit. They came to my house with the police, I told them to stuff it. I sounded strong, but I was scared poopless.