mrcpack17 said:
Property taxes fund roads, schools, law enforcement, fire depts., etc.
Look, I don't like paying them either but let's not go on acting like Uncle Sam isn't turning around and using that money on things we like and depend on. Is there waste? Of course. But to nix property taxes would cause a whole host of infrastructure issues. Unless you guys don't like that stuff, which I guess some of you ultra libertarians probably actually don't like that stuff.
Public schools...another Marxist creation right out of the Communist Manifesto. It's plank #10, and reads "
Free education for all children in public schools." (see all 10 planks at bottom of page
here).
We had a totally private education system in the United States prior to the introduction of public schools in the latter part of the 19th century (due to Marxist influence). And we functioned just fine. In fact, private high schools and universities are superior in quality to the government-run schools. We also had a totally private health care system in this nation at one time, which was superior to the system once the government got involved.
The government should not be involved in most of the things it is, which would
drastically lower the amount of money needed to fund it. Also, for the funding that is needed, you don't need it to be taxes on our labor and our property. There are other types of taxes. We have the right to the fruits of our work and labor, and the right to our property. The government does not have the "right" to destroy our wealth and confiscate our property.
How about coming up with other things to tax, instead of our right to our labor and property? How about taxing and confiscating the property of illegal aliens? How about taxing criminals, or tariffs and taxing certain imports of goods into the country?
Do you realize that we functioned as a nation for well over 100 years without property taxes or income taxes? How did we do it? For one, we had a MUCH MUCH smaller government. And two, they funded the government via other sources -- such as tarrifs and other types of taxes, which are explicitly mentioned in the Constitution as means to fund the federal government.
The fundamental concept here should be that people only have to pay for their own stuff, and stuff that they use. Have toll roads, where only people who use the roads pay for them. It is immoral and unjust to tax people and confiscate their wealth, to pay for other people's stuff (eg, health care, schooling, welfare checks, etc). That is theft.
"Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." - John 15:19