We hear the ‘taxation is theft’ so often that it’s been reduced to a bumper sticker. Far more useful to the conversation is the taxation question Ron DeSantis is raising about the assumptions buried in the act of taxation itself.
Long after you’ve fully paid off any loans on your home — who actually owns it… and how can you tell?
Retirees who have paid all of their loans and their taxes are not *really* free and clear on their property. Every year a tax bill comes due based on an amount the government decides that home is valued at. Failure to pay can have you thrown off your own property.
In that case, can a homeowner really say he OWNS that land?
That’s the question Ron Desantis is raising in this clip
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It’s the kind of question that can open up public discourse in ways that completely change not just the working assumptions underpinning public and government interactions. It could open up massive changes to the rights of private homeowners, and (by making it harder for local governments to hike taxes), it could even push local municipalities in the direction of leaner and more responsive governments.
