Renting vs. Owning Extends Far Beyond Just Your Residence ~ #rentorrent
Have you given this any thought? When you walk into Target, Best Buy, your local watering hole, or even just the gas station down the street where you frequently fill up the tank, are you buying what they're selling? Or are you renting it? Odd question, no? Of course you're probably saying "I'm buying stuff, how would I be renting it?" And you'd be right.
Can you imagine how you'd feel (and react) if after buying a big ole flat screen from Best Buy, a year later you get a phone call from Best Buy HQ stating that you owe them even more money for it. Albeit not as much as the TV itself cost, but let's say the TV was $1200, and they said you owed them a measly $14.28.
- Would you laugh at the person demanding this payment over the phone and hang up?
- Would you scoff at this idea of paying money, again, on something you've already paid in full?
- Or would you gladly just pay it and go on with your life?
I can only gander that a lot of you would choose option 1 and 2.
Seems rather silly to even ponder this notion of paying anything for something you already own. But then this begs the question, what is property tax?
My very own mother is fortunate enough to own her house outright, no mortgage, no loans, no liens, nada. It's hers free and clear. It she were to sell it today, all the profit would be hers.
But here's the rub...she doesn't get phone calls from Best Buy for the TV's and appliances shes bought, but she does get letters from a different company, one called the IRS. And they tell her that even though the house and 7 acres she and her husband bought over 20 years ago and have since paid off in full, that she still has to pay them about 1.9% of what they value her house at. Sounds just as silly as Best Buy claiming you owe them 1.9% for a TV you paid in full a year ago, does it not?
If you are forced to pay for something every year, even after it's been paid off in full, do you ever truly own said thing? If someone can take it back on a whim due to lack of payment, how is it that you have said ownership?
Property tax = paying for something you already own. Only a sick and twisted institution like the government could pull off such a ruse, and yet still have members of the populace cheer it on as some noble and just thing, for the sake of helping the poor and needy. Which is a ruse all on it's own.
This extends beyond property tax though. Income tax is even worse imo. You sell your labor for money, and then that money is taken from you based on certain parameters. Did you ever own that money if another party has a claim of ownership to it? Take it one step further...if you sold you labor for money and they can take your money, is your labor even yours? Interesting questions to ask yourself.
As much as I believe with all my heart and soul, that I own myself, and that you own yourself, it's really just a conscious belief in my mind. It holds no bearing to the law men and tyrants.
It's time more people do the research and think for themselves, so that one day, hopefully, this belief in my mind, can and will be a belief in all of yours. And from that, it will turn from a belief to a known fact.
You own yourself, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And it's time to start acting like it.
Thanks for reading, peace and love.
You know what’s really awesome? When the government steps in and tells you you can’t use this part of your land for farming because blah, blah, blah. Oh, but they won’t buy it from you. You can still own it and pay taxes on it, but you don’t get to decide what you do with it.
Sounds about right. Did you ask permission first? Or did you just do it and then they found out and told you that you couldn't?
So the local watershed around here has the right-of-way to some ditches in the county. But as a farmer who owns land, they own the land right up to the road, which includes the ditch.
Farmers usually will farm right to the edge. The watershed decided they needed to stake out into the field and plant grass to extend the tops of the ditch.
Ah, gotcha. How nice of them to use your property for themselves while at the same time telling you that you have to pay their fee for having the title to the land....the same land you can't use how you see fit. Frustrating, I'm sorry.
Property is one of the fundamental rights, preceded only by life and liberty. Of course, governments seek to usurp all 3, and taxes on ownership and exchange are proof of their trespass no matter how they claim their monopolized services may justify those trespasses.