Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
by ufocia on Monday March 18, 2024 @11:06AM
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I'm not sure that it favors the land owners. Most of us presumably value our life over our worldly possessions.
Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
by Retric on Monday March 18, 2024 @11:33AM
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By favor I simply mean the property tax level required to support a trillion dollar defense + VA + courts + police etc budget is larger than the current property tax rate. And without that type of spending owning the deed to some property would be pointless.
Obviously we could lower defense spending but that's a separate question than simply the justification for taxes.
Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
by _heimdall on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:57AM
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So would you expect this new property tax to be a federal tax, as opposed to most today that are used to fund local governments?
Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
by Wildgoose on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:59PM
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Thanks for that - fascinating story!
http://www.queenoftheisles.com/HTML/Republic%20of%20Minerva....
In the 1970's a group of people decided to setup a micro nation on a small unclaimed island. A nearby country Tonga seeing they where not protected by another state invaded, so ended the micro nation.
Ultimately it's the US governments providing a military and police force that causes a piece of paper to have any impact on who controls a piece of land. Such services require payment. Though we charge for local services ie schools, EMS based with property taxes and protection FBI/Army based on people (income tax). Historically this favors land owners, but we could swap in the future.