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Go get a beer? Talk about paying taxes - alcohol taxes are nuts!
Make mine a cream stout please.
I'm of two minds on the whole property tax thing.
1. I'm perfectly happy not having to sleep with one eye open and a hand on the 12ga. I'm perfectly happy to be able to drive to the store on plowed roads within hours of the most major storm. And so on. In short, I don't mind paying for the maintenance of civil society and provision of basic needs best provided by centralized entities, such as roads.
2. Property taxes aren't the way to do accomplish #1, and haven't been for a hundred years or so. Taxing property dates to colonial times, when property owners were the only people with money. I'd much rather acheive the same end with something like a consumption or sales tax. Some might say that can't be done at a local level, to which I respond, yo - this is the digital age - throw some processors and a little bandwidth together, and you sure as heck can do it.
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