• Spaniard@lemmy.world
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    If you pay property taxes then the property isn’t yours.

    In my town, the land belongs to the local government.

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      Certified psycho. If you think owning a plot of land within a country does not have an opportunity cost you are wrong. If you think people imposing costs on others shouldn’t pay for it say it out loud.

      Just go and found your own country already, you just need a gun in order to enforce your ownership. In the end a state is just the monopoly of force in a place.

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        I agree with the point that land is owned by the one strong enough to enforce ownership.

        I also think you agree with my point that we don’t own our land, or even our houses, the State owns it and we rent it from them.

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          We don’t rent it from them. We pay for continued ownership. The difference being that eviction is not possible and you do not need permits unless you do something more involved to your property. Calling it renting discounts the complexities that renting brings with it. The costs of renting usually are much higher than property taxes.

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            “We pay for continued ownership” sure sounds like rent to me. Make sure you tell those that had their house/property taken away from them due to eminent domain how eviction is not possible.

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              At that point the term renting becomes something else entirely and therefore useless to discriminate between renters and homeowners. this discrimination is useful, hence we must not weaken our language.