RE: Your land should be your jurisdiction.

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Your land should be your jurisdiction.

in ethics •  5 years ago  (edited)

well yeah, im not saying that you will be paid a fair market price, but i still dont think that not being paid fairly justifies trying to do away with the government or taxation... however, i do believe that the current US tax system is broken and that it is not being applied effectively or spent properly. But at the end of the day, i believe that there is no way around taxation in an organized and orderly society (unless we do away with money entirely).

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Oh, of course we need some sort of taxation, I'm just saying that real-estate taxes seem to be a form of de facto perpetual rent and a mechanism to evict "owners" at the whim of moneyed-interests.

  ·  5 years ago (edited)

Again thank you. I see your stance way clearer after you added a bit more nuance. I think there is a big grey area between sovereign property and paying fair rent... Fair rent is definitely a more reasonable (or rather more realistic) demand than sovereignty.
Perhaps the sentiment also has to do with which states we live in... I recently saw my property tax go up but about $300 for the year, but i live in one of the comparatively low tax states... i imagine that the situation is way worse for people living in states like NY, VT, CT.

Good point.