For your consideration ...
I'm wondering why once you've bought something you have to pay taxes on it every single year forever.
The short story? Because people are ignorant, and without question just go along with something they did not consent to, and weren't even alive when such laws were passed.
The longer story? In the past, land owned, and any thing upon that land, was held in allodial title. Which means that its ownership was in absolute terms, no one, not even government, could tell an owner what they could do with it, let alone tax it. Except in cases of imminent domain, as laid out in the Constitution.
Then came the shyster banksters, in cahoots with government. If one took out a loan from a bank, and encumbered the property, then the title converted to "in fee simple", the absolute lowest and weakest form of title. And when getting money from a bank, the bank always dictates the terms of the loan, since, it is now the bank that has bought and now owns the property, telling you what you can, and cannot do with it, and, that
you must pay any and all costs associated with maintaining the property, as well as paying any taxes that might be associated with it. Basically, the banks said to government, (now the actual owners of nearly all property in the US), if you need more revenue, tax real estate, even though we really own and hold a note on the property, it will be the tenant paying the bill, not us. You, are just a tenant living in their property.
In the past, when a mortgage was paid off, the bank would send you back the deed showing the loan was satisfied, is no longer encumbered, and you now have back complete ownership of your property once again. People back in the day would actually have parties to commentate getting the deed back to their property. Nowadays, when one pays off their mortgage, instead of receiving their deed back showing the property unencumbered, we get a simple "letter of satisfaction", and one filed at the Clerk of the Court, that says the loan has been repaid.
Banks, and by extension States, allow you the following ..... When you have title of real property, you have the following five rights:
The right of possession – you are the legal controller of the property and have the right to be on the property
The right of control – you can use the property however you want, as long as you are not doing anything illegal
The right of exclusion – you have the authority to tell people to get off of the property and invite them onto the property
The right of enjoyment – you have the right to live peacefully and not be bothered by others while on the property
The right of disposition – you have the right to transfer the property
Ownership is not among those five because the bank owns the property. Miss one payment and you can be considered in default of the terms of the loan and they can recall the entire balance of the loan. If you can't pay it back fully in the time allotted, they will foreclose on the property and out on the street you go, then they'll sell it to someone else that can pay. And even if you fully pay back a mortgage, the property is still held "in fee simple", allowing the continuation of property taxes, and subject to any and all zoning rules BS. When a note is paid off, you then become a tenant of the State, because of that "in fee simple" title.
This is pretty much the gist of how this happened. This is just the basics.
It's my opinion backed by lots of research, reading, and observations.
