Here we need permits to change some windows WTH. Windows I can do , but now have to get a permit, or get a permit to build a screen porch in the back where no one can see!!
Allodial title would be a great thing. Absolute ownership with no superior owner having any claim at all.
Try not paying your property taxes and find out how long you "own" the property ... 90 days, 120 days, 180 days???
Marxists hate private property. They want to take it from you. You only think you own it. You pay taxes, insurance and upkeep. You have the liability. You pay “property” taxes, which are nothing but a confiscation of your property, 3% a year, disguised under the name “Mill rate.”
The article doesn’t say anything new here that people don’t already know. There’s no way around the taxman. Yeah, you can rent but if you don’t think your landlord has baked his own tax burden into the rent he charges you, you are only fooling yourself.
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Where I live the county assessor raise taxes every year even if the property values decline
The only home ownership that really matters is the Blood-bought home in Heaven, built with the loving nail-scarred hands of Jesus Himself.
The really sick part is that for about $5000 in taxes a town could take away a home worth $400k, sell it and the original owner gets none of the profit.
Before taking on your city hall, county courthouse or state capital... Try getting your home and property back from “your” HOA. At least the first three governments I listed are forms of democratic republic. HOA’s are pure tyranny, and it’s your own neighbors doing it to you.
I’m not sure how any alternative could work. A condominium or home owners association (hoa) works the same way for apportioning the cost of maintaining common areas. At other times property was taxed on road frontage, number of windows, or number of floors and each tax scheme has unintended consequences like extra narrow buildings, bricked in windows, and French Empire or Mansard style roofs.
How can a town equitably apportion the cost of maintaining the civil space?
Plank #1 of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property rights.
Property taxes and the ability to keep a primary home out of bankruptcy proceedings (as in Florida), are key to how some of the very underpopulated states could attract new residents.
To start with, under strict parameters, a state could enact its own homestead act. A single family home on a land area of limited size, that cannot be leased or rented, can be property tax and inheritance tax free, as long as the family lives there for six months and a day every year (as in Alaska).
The domicile must be fully owned, not mortgaged, and the family must maintain some means of financial support. And while it may be “connected to the grid”, for electricity, water, and sewage, if they can provide these things for themselves, it will not be required.
I would like to hear some original ideas about doing away with property taxes, yet funding things like local city hall, police, city streets and such.
My county property tax office charges me 3 and a half months of take home pay to live in my home.
I’ve been making this argument for three decades now.
My parents paid $60 a month for our three bedroom rambler in a Fort Worth suburb back in 1962. My friend, who has a nicer four bedroom house in the suburbs of Seattle (Maple Valley) pays $750 a month JUST IN PROPERTY TAXES.
I see that as rent.
It’s why I moved to central, rural Kentucky. We still have property taxes, but my ANNUAL property taxes are the same as a single month’s car payment on a Camry. And that’s for a house and 32 beautiful acres.
Every time I fly in and out of Chicago or Seattle I look down and see a tax goldmine. That is you those people’s leaders see it. A population that is to be ripped off as much as possible before they actually revolt. Well, I DID revolt. I moved.
Live out in the country in a home that’s paid for on acreage that’s paid for. Yes, I pay property taxes but they are ridiculously low. Yes, I pay home insurance primarily to get protection against fire. But that’s it.
I have friends who live “in town” and are always bitching about how high their property taxes are and the onerous rules of their HOA.
I just smile to myself.