alt Hacker NewsProperty tax is theft.
By applying a tax to a _thing_ that someone owns, you are saying 'actually, this thing you have is mine, and if you don't pay me for the privilege of having it, I will take it away from you'.
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itake • today at 4:03 PM
Maybe I'm beating a dead horse, but who pays for the roads to houses in the suburbs and why is it the people living in apartments that don't use many roads?
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nisegami • today at 4:03 PM
Land ownership is theft. Why should people have a right in perpetuity to the land that we all share?
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Property tax pays for maintaining the utilities and services connected to the property. If you buy land that is completely unconnected from public services, you will find that the corresponding property taxes are extremely low.
I've had annual property taxes as low as $1/acre.