[Pontiac]

At least the British are honest about such levies and they refer to them as ‘rent’ because if they are not paid to your landlord then you find out who truly OWNS your property!

I absolutely agree.

But the idea of a property tax made much more sense in the early days of the republic. That is before income taxes and other taxes.

In the early days of our republic only those with property paid any taxes at all and only those with property could vote. There for only those who paid taxes could vote and therefore only those who paid taxes could vote for those who spent those taxes or could raise taxes.

Now any citizen (theoretically) who hasn’t committed a felony can vote for any socialist that trip his fancy.

[i_robot73]

And yet STILL another example of why NOT to give any authority, power, taxes, etc. to gov’t.

Gov’t ALWAYS begins with MAY and VOLUNTARY, and not too much long after becomes SHALL and MANDATORY.

Regardless if it was ‘from the beginning’; it is and always will be a BAD idea and way to pay for services, let alone the whole ‘owning property’ facade.

Let’s not even start with the Unconstitutional ‘social services’ anyone can vote themselves.