Occulted Truth #2

You do not own your home, because you can not own property in America. Owning a home has traditionally been one of the quintessential aspects of the American dream. People have worked long and hard to gather enough money to either make a down payment on, or outright buy a house that they can call their own.

The problem with home ownership in America for example – and this applies to other countries and nation States as well, is that the land the home is built upon is not owned outright by the homeowner. Many people have been convinced that they own the land they built their house upon. Yet the facts remain that the tenuous relationship between the title holder and the state is that of landlord and tenant. The State is the landlord, and the title holder is the tenant.

The tenant (homeowner) must pay an annual rental fee (property taxes) to the state for the privilege of occupying the land. Should this annual rental fee not be paid, the so called “homeowner” will be ejected from the state-owned property, and any physical structures built upon said property shall be confiscated by the state.

If you want to buy a home, or land in America, I think that it’s firstly most important that you understand the nature of what you are contracting into. Most people wouldn’t buy a new car, and park it on someone else’s property. So why are people building new houses on state property? People have come to accept property taxes.

Yet in this acceptance they still delude themselves by calling themselves homeowners. Maybe by a technicality they are homeowners, but the phrase is meaningless if you don’t own the foundation on which the home was built upon.