Property tax is inimical to the natural state of man. As in my original post, it keeps you from simply existing and forces you to participate in a system you had no business in creating.

Income tax is the best compromise I know of. If you want to participate in the economy-at-large then you pay it. If you don't want to, feel free to not participate. People who make more will pay more, but they will still make more.

“Exclusive access to resources, buttressed by a legal system” is not historically or anthropologically the “natural state of man.”

Which is fine; lots of great stuff aren’t “the natural state of man.” But don’t bullshit about it, yeah?

You inherently can’t not participate unless you live in the boonies, which isn’t the land that people are talking about taxing. Cities have to maintain infrastructure for every building - roads, sewers, power, mass transit, police, water, fire protection, courts, the list goes on. Even if you magically don’t use it (no shopping at the supermarket), sitting in the middle of it all lengthens the runs to the other buildings.

The boonies are taxed though. That is most of my complaint. If someone is destitute through circumstance they are punished for it.

The natural state of man not participating in an economy can be seen on the YouTube channel Primitive Technology.

The natural state of man does not involve ownership of property...

Well except for that which he can enforce himself through means of force.