Yeah because who wants to keep the equity they build up while building the house and making it nice. As soon as it's paid off, let's take out a loan against it! That's the answer! "Tap" into the equity my ass, that line of thinking is the problem and why we are constantly over-spending as a civilization.
Property taxes means the government owns both your land and anything you have on it and you are merely renting from them. This is not OK in my opinion, and I believe all property taxes should be abolished as it requires people to continue paying rent to the government forever. My dad had to step in to prevent my 85 year old grandmother from being evicted and having her house auctioned off due to years of overdue property tax because (shocker) she didn't have any money. So let's evict this little old woman we should be taking care of and make them burdens on their families because her breadwinner spouse died years earlier and she couldn't afford to continue paying rent to the government who did nothing but bleed money from her and her husband their whole lives. Really considerate of us as a society. Luckily she had family to pick her up. What if she didn't.
I'm sorry but the government has done fuck all to make my land better other than be a pain in my ass when I want to make it better and force me to pay them in order to do any construction ON MY OWN.
Property taxes means the government owns both your land and anything you have on it and you are merely renting from them. This is not OK in my opinion, and I believe all property taxes should be abolished as it requires people to continue paying rent to the government forever. My dad had to step in to prevent my 85 year old grandmother from being evicted and having her house auctioned off due to years of overdue property tax because (shocker) she didn't have any money. So let's evict this little old woman we should be taking care of and make them burdens on their families because her breadwinner spouse died years earlier and she couldn't afford to continue paying rent to the government who did nothing but bleed money from her and her husband their whole lives. Really considerate of us as a society. Luckily she had family to pick her up. What if she didn't.
I'm sorry but the government has done fuck all to make my land better other than be a pain in my ass when I want to make it better and force me to pay them in order to do any construction ON MY OWN.