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  • The only provision we have is "no taxation without representation" and that COULD apply to people living in Washington DC, but pretty much nowhere else. If we didn't pay property taxes, the county that you live in wouldn't have any money to pay for the roads you drive on, police that protect you and a whole lot of other stuff.
  • they are.
  • The government holds 4 rights against ALL real estate - 1. Police Power - right to enforce codes and regulations 2. Eminent Domain - right to "take" lands for public use. Private land owner receives assessed value plus damages. 3. Taxation - right to collect property taxes 4. Escheat - governments reversionary right - if you are a lnd owner and die with no will AND no living heirs, your land goes back to the government. Not against the constitution.
  • They are unconstitutional....I quote the preable.."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."...please make note of...and secure the Blessings and Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity...in that statement, you can infer that your property, i.e. wealth, land, possessions, is what the Framers had in mind in securing personal property to be passed down to the next generation...a truly free society owns their property outright. A property tax is by definition, regardless of its use or where its directed, a claim by the state of ownership. If you are found to be in default of paying property tax, the state can then seize that property. You see, if there is the possibility to potentially losing something you own because you have been amiss in payments, you do not really own it. What you really have is a feudal system where we pay a fee/tax to a feudal lord and we, the serfs, may live on that land. But make no mistake, if the state can confiscate that property if you are delinquent, then you truly do not own that land outright. The state does. The Property tax is unconstitutional because it does not allow us to live in a truly free way and secure the blessings to our posterity.
  • Because, on that issue, you're not talking about one constitution. When the individual states ceded part of their sovereignty to the newly formed United States Government, the U.S. Constitution was quickly amended (via the 10th Amendment) to specify that powers not given to the federal government were reserved for the states. States had always had property taxation authority, and continued to have it after the U.S. constitution was ratified. Note that this is also the reason that, while the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. constitution puts limits on federal gun control efforts (the extent of which are obviously hotly debated), it doesn't restrict states' rights to outright ban guns if they want to.
  • good question. why not drive your own garbage to the land fill. Why not buy all your water in bottles. How many bottles would it take you to water your lawn,bath, wash your clothes. How is this even a constitutional question?

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