Rent was never mentioned? They said property taxes, where, in owning a house, you must pay property tax to benefit from the the services, courts, and military defenses of the country you live in - and if you don't pay, the country still has to protect that piece of land anyways, so they take it from you for non-payment and/or deprive you of other freedoms by throwing you in jail so that someone else can own the land and pay taxes on it.