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Ok, end taxes except property tax.
Property tax is one of the worst taxes. Property tax essentially makes every man a slave. If you live an entirely self-contained life on your own property and don't make money to pay a yearly rent to the government, they take your land, and your life if you resist. It's entirely unjustifiable.
Limitations on property ownership also need to be applied before that system could ever work - look at Gates now. Property is a limited resource.
Starship troopers style civic service is a better system. Every potential citizen has to earn the vote. It can't be bought or passed down and it has to be dangerous and beneficial for the nation. It's not just military service in the book.
property tax over a certain size/value threshold is fine.
You are probably aware but my comment was a tongue-in-cheek response to TheImp saying "family and property requirements" are insane ideas. Just trying to help them meet in the middle. :)
I lean anarcho-capitalist and don't want any taxes. That said, I would be ok with a property tax assessed once like when you buy a vehicle. For example $30,000 on a $250,000 lot put to an escrow account you can pay off over time and then that's it. Your children don't have to pay anything. Things like police and fire are service fees and should be calculated apart from that.
Assessed once at point of sale is just a sales tax.
Correct. "Ok end taxes except a one time sales tax on property and we have a deal" doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same way.
Do you think people have the right to own property or not? Property tax is rent. It denies property rights.
Not only are they not preventing foreign invasion, western governments are actively facilitating it.