Jack's Late Night Musings

Property taxes are the “ultimate” tax because you lose your home if you don’t pay them. If someone can take away your home, they own your life. How in the hell did we ever let this happen?

It’s my belief that government is a “living” organism. And even if it’s not, it acts like one. It doesn’t like to die. It likes to eat. It likes to get bigger. It likes to breed. It does not like to go on diets. There is only one way EVER to control this kind of organism – by controlling the food supply. And governments all eat what? MONEY.

At the onset of “America” only property owners could vote. Somehow that got away from us, and that has been the start of all manner of evil. If someone who doesn’t own property can create entitlement programs that cause me to lose my property, then they have effectively stolen my property, my capital, and my life. Nothing can change in America until this central fact changes. Everything else is balderdash.

Here is a “simple” step-by-step plan to get control of our property and eventually our lives back.

1. What I am about to tell you can be started anywhere, but the best place would be counties where property owners outnumber non-property owners. I’m thinking the large agri-states would be perfect for this – but any county where property owners outnumber non-property owners will work.

2. Get a referendum/petition/whatever it’s called where you live on the ballot that says “ONLY PROPERTY OWNERS CAN VOTE ON PROPERTY TAX INCREASES.” You can see where this is going, I hope. The longest journey begins with the first step. It is my theory that this plan will spread to other counties. But even if it doesn’t, do you know what will happen to investment in any county that does this? It will be like opening the floodgates.

3. Next step. “THE COUNTY MAY LIEN PROPERTIES THAT DO NOT PAY TAXES, BUT THEY CAN’T TAKE THE PROPERTY AND SELL IT.” No more “tax sales”. This equates to property owners being able to shut down country government by not sending in any more money! And thus effectuate the changes property owners want. It also prevents travesties like old people losing their homes because they got out priced by property taxes.

4. A state with a majority of counties like this can effectively be ruled by these kind of counties. And what is the first thing they do? Pass legislation or a constitutional amendment that only property owners can vote. Frankly, I don’t care if the masses elect whomever they want so long as only property owners can approve budgets. Good Lord, if any state did this they couldn’t stop the flow of people with money who want to live and invest there. And so far, this only affects state and local voting. The feds will go ape-sh*t crying civil rights violation. Since no one would think of interfering with the election of public officials, I don’t see a civil rights problem. All I see is that if property owners don’t want to spend money, money isn’t spent. The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away.

5. Now that property owners alone control the money that feeds the county or state, they have just captured control of the county or the state. Unless property owners want big taxes, they’ll reduce the county services to the bare minimum. No more witchhunts. No more money to prosecute victimless crimes. No more social welfare services. No benefits of any kind. Only whatever the property owners think serves their best interest. No cushy government jobs. No out of control planning departments. Land use regulation. Enviro-Nazies. Inspectors. Regulators. Think about this. Why is a building inspector necessary except in dense populations where problems with one house or building can spread to the next? But in the country? If I build a bad house? Oh, well. If the bank finances it, they can get their own private inspectors. And the same can be true of cities. Why does a city or county have to provide the inspector? Demand certification from private inspectors. I don’t need to elaborate.

6. What about the poor welfare recipients? Call their parents? Get a job? Stop having kids they can’t pay for? Or how about this? MOVE. Go somewhere where you’re wanted. Appeal to the churches. I don’t have an answer. I just know we can’t afford to give you money any longer.

7. What about fewer police? Like what’s the question? Police will have enough forces to concentrate on CRIME. The common law felonies: murder, rape, robbery, mayhem, arson. In case you don’t know it yet, police cannot solve all social ills. FIGHT THE BATTLES YOU CAN WIN. And fight them hard. If it’s time for a certain segment of the population to go live somewhere else, then it is. Give them a choice: prison or a one-way ticket to Hawaii. Isn’t that how many immigrants came here? And certainly to Australia.
8. Once the idea catches on, states may find it possible to “just say no” to Big Daddy. Stop accepting the heroine of “federal program” handouts.

9. Most states have an income tax. Those that don’t, have a higher than average sales tax. This sales tax is actually pretty fair. Rich people spend more money than poor people for the most part. So the tax is sort of “proportionate”. The cool thing is that when rich people stop buying stuff with a sales tax, they need to start investing the leftovers. Creating an atmosphere where rich people want to invest in your state or county is a good thing. Right now they spend a lot of money trying to get OUT.

10. The way the game works now, the federal government takes everybody’s money and then sends some back depending on how well the children behave. Or how good the lobby or who holds the most markers or blackmail cards. What if states decide they don’t want fed money any more but they’d like to run their own “programs” – since some of these states will have the “no property, no vote” law. State income tax payments are a federal tax deduction. So if the states say no to fed money and then raise the money they need themselves via taxes, the people who pay the taxes don’t have to send the tax money upstream to the feds. We don’t have to fight the civil war again, but states rights would seem to come back without ever using the word.

11. Now we’re getting closer to the root of the problem. If the states don’t want anything more from the feds and the people have stopped sending so much money to the feds, the feds are stuck. They either have to go on a diet or keep printing money (which is what they’re doing now) to pay for their lunches. At some point this will just not work any longer. But the counties and states will be very solvent by then. Whether the fed lives or dies is no longer an issue.

12. No one will miss the passing of the bloated beast that is federal bureaucracy. But in any event, control of government could pass to those who have something to lose by mismanagement – property owners. All indirectly. Nothing to do with race or religion. And nothing to do with “elections” – just about who controls the money. Every time a duly elected legislature gets “uppity” – property owners cut off their money. After awhile they’ll get the memo.