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To: Partisan Gunslinger
Acreage is property. It takes 5 or more sections of land here to grow wheat and make a living at it. Each section is a square mile: 640 acres. Stuff the tax. You buy the land, it should be yours, not rented from the Government.

If they put a tax lien on your property, they don't cart the structure away, they take it, dirt and all.

There are plenty of other ways for the government to raise money, and considering the rules Government has promulgated which often preclude the profitable use of privately owned land, the harvesting of privately owned timber, and other uses, for the government to levy a tax on that land is obscene.

Less government is the goal.

13 posted on 05/20/2012 9:36:43 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Acreage is property.

All possessions are property. Today's property taxes include structures. A better tax would be to tax just the acreage.

Stuff the tax. You buy the land, it should be yours, not rented from the Government.

The government spends money to protect your land from foreign invasion, and should be compensated for it.

There are plenty of other ways for the government to raise money...

Tariffs and sales taxes are anti-growth. Income and acreage should be the two main taxes.

Less government is the goal.

Knocking tax collection to the four ways I mentioned would massively rein in the government.

16 posted on 05/20/2012 3:27:03 PM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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