I am, by the poor dumb luck of market timing, the arduous climb up a career ladder, the careful curation of credit score and at the cost of a healthy spine, good knees and mental health traded to the US Marine Corps for a loan guarantee and a favorable interest rate, a home owner.
My biggest fear however is that increasing property taxes will eventually lead to my family losing their home to the government. I’ve seen it happen to the elderly already whose fixed incomes have forced them to sell or lose their home to the tax man.
I find it repugnant, shameful and morally indefensible that, based on an arbitrary assessment of value by a government official that this possibility exists and is a real threat to human beings.
The mere existence of this tax defies the notion of personal property and property rights as we pretend to understand them. Taxing personal property and especially property owned as a primary residence relegates everyone to a status of renter and therefore subject to eviction.
I don’t accept that in a post-industrial modern economy we still rely on taxing the perceived value of a persons primary residence as a means of funding government.
Any elected officer who represents themselves as a champion of the poor, a representative of the marginalized or says that housing is a human rights issue and continues to allow taxation of owner occupied residential real estate has a fundamental misunderstanding of human rights