Where in the United States (including U.S. commonwealths & territories) can one find the lowest average property taxes? Thanks.
Good question. I’d be curious to know the answer for Canada as well. I assume that the more remote you are, the smaller the local government is, and the less infrstructure and state parasite employees there are to maintain with the extortion tax.
Good luck trying to figure it out in Florida. Because of the “Save Our Homes” amendment everything is convoluted beyond comprehension.
For example, imagine two identical homes right next to each other. John Smith just bought his home recently and it is currently assessed at $150,000. He is not yet eligible for homestead and ends up paying millieage on the whole $150,000. Bob Jones has owned the home next door for years and it is appraised at the same $150,000, but because of “Save Our Homes” it is accessed at only $50,000. In addition, Jones gets a $25,000 homestead exemption.
So Jones may end up paying a trivial amount like $500. Smith, however, may be stuck with a $3000 bill.
All this on property exactly the same, that is worth the same amount of money.
All property taxes need to be abolished. Of all the taxes, property is by far the worst.
SurvivalBlog has a lot of valuable information on taxation, at least for the US mainland. A quick search produced this. The article also contains some sources concerning further tax information.
Have fun.
Thank you, I will have a look at that.
Property taxes are actually the fairest and most economic, which is why you denounced the outrageously unfair Save Our Homes policy.
Living in a city isn’t free. If you don’t want to live on your own land and produce your own roads, water, and electricity, you have to pay for the land you occupy.
Property taxes = feudalism. Why would we want such a system of theft to appear fair? And it seems to me that only a masochist would want theft to be economic.
It’s only theft if the tenants didn’t agree to pay rents. In real feudalism, that is not always clear.
In “real feudalism”, the government laid claim, arbitrarily and illegitimately, to all of the land within a given territory and demanded that any occupants of said land pay them for the right to use it.
Under property taxes, the government lays claim, arbitrarily and illegitimately, to all of the land within a given territory and demands that any occupants of said land pay them for the right to merely occupy it.
So maybe it’s not feudalism. It’s worse.