If you must pay protection money not to have your home or property taken by the government then you really don’t own it.
In some place your personal property is taxed as well as your real estate.
In effect you must pay the king to be allowed to keep what you “purchased” with the little money he allowed to to keep after taking half your earnings to spend on wars,lazy supporters of the king,and even a little bit on needful projects like roads and a defensive military.
King=government.
Remember for many years and still way too prevalent is the legal doctrine that “the king can do no wrong”,hence government and its lackeys arerarely prosecuted for actions that would ensure your incarceration if not execution.
And the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion was simply proof of the truth in the 1960s rock song about revolution :”new boss,same as the old boss...”
I read that in Washington,D.C. one cannot legally install a really strong door that would impair the ability of the police to break in.
Freedom ?? Sure the freedom to watch asinine entertainmentis still available but just about everything else is severely restricted.
It is not freedom nor in compliance with the Bill of Rights that you must get government permission and pay a fee in order to protect yourself with arms,nor do the same for “free” speech in a public square.
So you are opposed to property taxes - what do you suggest be used instead? Texas is biased toward property taxes and away from income taxes. That seems to work well for us.
In a truly free society you would actually own your home and then be free to contract,or not, for fire protection,security services,electricity,natural gas,telephone(communication) water, and waste disposal services, of your choice from the marketplace.You would pay no school fees(taxes) unless sending someone to a school of your choice. You would pay no tax to support libraries,museums,art exhibits,and the like, but would be free to patronize such businesses and associations.The utility provider would never think of adding a fee to your bill in order to provide free utilty for someone else.
Charity would be your personal decision and a function of churches and private societies.
Another ridiculous situation is the “homeowner” being forced to pay for sidewalk repair yet have no control over that portion of his “property”.If the sidewalk is public thoroughfare like the street then it should be funded as such.
As for health or nuisance issues,your neighbors would be free to file civil lawsuits for damages should your property be a refuge and source of vermin or unhealthy waste.And they would run the risk of losing unlike today’s government enforcers who are arrogant lackeys.
What happened,and is still happening, in the U.S. is that time after time , a vocal minority convinced those in authority to steal everyone’s money to pay for some special desire of that vocal minority .They always claim the public as a whole will gain some nebulous benfit.They almost always lie.
Many rural and semi-rural people have been forced to incur huge debts by forced abandonments of working septic systems in favor of hookup to the municipal sewerage system(the same systems that often have huge million gallon releases when something goes wrong at the treatment plant.)
The change to public schools and forced attendance didn’t coincide with a great flowering of freedom but did provide a more uniformly trained population for the industrial magnates.
The reality is that this is not hardly a nation of independent free-thinking people but a collection of serfs;albeit mostly quite comfortable serfs.Those serfs who publically complain make the rest unhappy.
wideawake is an unhappy serf.Having one’s pleasant dreams disturbed usually does that.