RSSDo We Really Have Private Property Any More?
J.J. Jackson* | April 5, 2008
When the government can claim that you have to pay taxes or it will take your land, are there really any property rights left in America anymore?
VIOLA, Wis. (AP) — A landowner with “strong anti-government attitudes” barricaded himself in his rural home Thursday and fired shots at SWAT officers trying to search his home and arrest him, authorities said. No one was injured.
The dispute started Monday when Richland County sheriff’s deputies tried to serve Robert Bayliss, 60, with a lawsuit seeking to evict him for failure to pay property taxes back to 2001 on his home and 18 acres, Richland county counsel Benjamin Southwick said.
The county took ownership of the land in November because of the unpaid taxes, Southwick said.
Rifle shots were fired at officers who went to the property Monday, said Darin Gudgeon, the Richland County emergency management director. On Thursday, SWAT officers used an armored vehicle to try to serve the search and arrest warrants but encountered shots and ended up in a standoff, Gudgeon said.No one has been hurt, he said.
This is why I have always hated the idea of “property taxes”. Because when you owe money to the government in order to keep what is supposed to be “private property” do you really have “private property” any more? Of course you don’t.
At the same time, governments do need to collect taxes to do what they need to do. The problem is that governments do far more than they “need” to do and thus taxes are outrageous. It’s a vicious cycle and events like this are going to become more and more common as citizens revolt against bloated government doing things that charities and churches are meant for while using taxes as a reason to take away our God given rights.
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