(07-03-2024, 07:59 AM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: ...
If I could explain from a vision standpoint. I've seen many visions of our future. We lose everything in one felt swoop. All of us. And then, yes, under complete control. Zero choices. Zero "freedoms." If you own a home, it will no longer belong to you. Nothing will.
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I would say you already don't "own" your own home, and never have. If you have to pay tribute to someone else (taxes to a government, for example) in order to keep what you already allegedly "own", do you really own it at all, or are you just renting it from the actual owners, the government? If you don't pay your taxes, you'll get "evicted" - how could they possibly evict you from a patch you are alleged to own?
So, I'd say you already don't own what you think you do.
In the early days of America, what we call real estate taxes now were called "quitrents" instead, and were paid not to governments originally, but to the wealthy landowners that the lands were actually licensed to by the Crown. Lord Fairfax in Virginia comes to mind. The "taxes" were actually "rents" for the landowner to "quit" his claim to the land so long as you kept paying the tributes for it to him, hence the term "quitrents".
But, after we "won our freedom", that was all changed. "Quitrents" wre called "taxes" instead, and were paid to the new owners - the government - rather than the old landowners who were kicked out of town. I would say the name change for the same tributes was really just a mask to allow you to think you "owned" something which you actually don't - you're still just paying quitrents to the government for them to allow you to stay on the patch that is allegedly "yours".
Stop paying your real estate taxes, and see how long you still "own" what you think you do.
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