The government can take your house if you don’t pay the bill for services you may or may not use. The money they take for property taxes is money you could have used for something you actually wanted. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Two things came in the email the other day, each at odds with the other.
One was another bill for “services” I neither asked for nor use nor approve of, such as government schools and the “work” done by various government employees who can force me and others to pay them via the government, which sends me these bills every six months. They are styled property taxes and if I fail to pay what they say I “owe” then the government will seize my property – which for that reason obviously isn’t really. It is merely the house I thought I paid for – and which I am allowed to pretend I own. The one I am forced to pay rent styled property taxes to the government to be permitted to occupy – in exchange for the “services” I don’t use, never asked for and don’t approve of but which the government insists are “essential.” By which is meant those who control the machinery of government deem them to be essential. So much so that others – who don’t want them and don’t use them must be forced to pay for them.
The second thing that came in the mail was a request for money for a service I would like to pay for – because it might be useful to me – but which I cannot afford to pay for, having been forced to pay for “services” I do not want to pay for because they are of no value to me.
It was a letter from my local volunteer fire department. I italicize “volunteer” to emphasize the irony.
Here is a service I would happily pay for – because it is worth paying for. It is also what you might call an essential service and yet, it is not paid for by the exorbitant, endless property taxes I am told I “owe” to pay for such things as government schools and the army of government workers who perform no services of any value to me.
