I always thought the same and use that line of thinking to show people that aside from being rent, property taxes based on asses value is flawed. Do the cops/firefighters respond any differently? Are muh roads more specialer? The vast majority of property taxes goes to education; what if I have no children? Is any priority given to me when I go file paperwork at the county building? No? Didn't think so.
I have convinced several people that you don't own your land if you have to pay property taxes. That's fairly easy for people to grasp. The problem is getting them to make the leap to the solution that you should only pay for what you use. It's a bridge too far for them to cross, even when you point out that some roads today are privatized; all your utilities are semi-privatized; massive infrastructure (like cell phone networks, fiber optics, etc.) are installed by private parties. Why not everything else? And I know that a lot of these "private" companies get a government monopoly or benefit some way or another.
ETA: yeah, using your home as a piggy bank isn't smart. Staying in a locale where your prop taxes triple to $7500/yr also not smart.
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