Guest Post by Eric Peters
I dislocated – or tore – something in my shoulder a few months ago and would very much like to get it fixed. Unfortunately for me, I have to pay the government – again – and that means I can’t afford to pay a doctor.
In about two weeks, I must send the county $841.50 – half the yearly “rent” I am obliged to pay – forever – in order to be allowed to continue living in the house I paid off 15 years ago.
As fas as the county is concerned, it will never be paid off.
Unlike the government, I can’t just print more money and send it a few sheets of devalued scrip and call it even. The money I’ve got is limited by how much I earn – and I don’t earn enough to pay to get my shoulder looked at and pay the government what it says I “owe” – though for the life of me, I cannot recall buying anything from the government nor incurring costs.
I’m a single/divorced dude without kids – so I haven’t got any in “the schools.”
While it may be a good thing for kids to attend school, I have never understood how it is that other people’s decision to have children obliges me to pay for their education – the primary justification for the bill I am looking at as I type this.
I am conversant in the Birds and the Bees and understand that, excepting rape, the reproductive act is a voluntary one that either party can opt out of, in order to not have kids – if they are unable or unwilling to shoulder the cost of raising them.
It’s an odd and terrible thing to be held up – and shaken down – on account of the actions of people you don’t even know, whose actions somehow impose these obligations on you. And without even the brief enjoyment of being a participant in the process that led to the obligation.
We all have to prioritize our finances, of course. But it is one thing to defer a new sofa in order to pay for an X-Ray and being forced to hand over a large sum of money and not only get nothing in return but less than nothing.
The $841.50 will be vacuumed out of my account and I will not get to see a doctor about my shoulder.
It’s a two-fer!
But what about health insurance? I’d rather just be able to pay a doctor – but mandatory health insurance has made medical care unaffordable. The insurance, too. I know something about this because I grew up around doctors – both my dad and grandfather were doctors, before everyone used insurance to pay doctors. 
My grandfather, an allergist, had his practice in his home – and had one nurse who doubled as his receptionist. Most people paid cash – which they could, because an office visit and shot was about $25. My grandfather did not have to pay a staff of health insurance paper-pushers half a million a year, which is why care was affordable.
The government ended that, too – via the same method. It took so much money away from people they could no longer afford medical care without insurance, then made insurance unaffordable by making it mandatory – the mandate used to make the healthy pay for the unhealthy (in the manner of forcing those without kids to pay for those with them, via the property tax extortion).
And the punchline is we’re all the poorer for it. We will never own our homes; we can’t afford to get sick.
But we’re all made to pay more for what we can’t afford anymore.
Or just do without – and go without.
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puh-lease, this smuck can’t afford to go to the doctors, because muh property tax bill came in the mail.
here’s a suggestion for you, save up some money, so you can afford to pay you bills and deal with any unexpected medical issues.
That is what adults do.
no wonder he is divorced (from reality)
$875?? My property tax is $8,000
Heh fellas, I think you are missing the point here.
Exactly oldtimer. I have a relative that told me the IRS wrote him and told him he owed them $25,000 He said that he probably made the mistake,and was gonna have a problem paying it. Now mind you if he does not pay it.It is under threat of his accounts being frozen,wages garnished,or a lean against his property. Yeah he can set up some kind of payment plan,or hire one of those company’s that will have it reduced. However that is not the point. I looked at him and asked him “Who are these people to tell you that you owe them a part of what You earned.Not them!!! And who are they to threaten your livelihood if you don’t pay it. Further more What service have they given you,that justifies them telling you that you owe them anything. He simply looked at me like I had two heads. The stupid in society……It burns.
Yep, over $3000 a year for some of the worst schools in the nation. And who knows how much more in total to support the prisons that house the ones who flunk out of some of the worst schools in the nation. Isn’t government great???
.i have no kids. Nothing i hate worse than overly expensive school tax. 8006 dollars a year being why we just moved. Not including property tax. I loved that house and was driven out by ever increasing taxes.
I used to get an annual bill for my taxes which included an $ 875 payment to the County Hospital. The one I couldn’t use???????
How can a debt you can never pay off not be a violation of the 13th Amendment?
KaD – you are under the impression that the Constitution still applies? Asset forfeiture is a real thing, and you do not have to be convicted of anything. If they can do that, and seems they can, they can do ANYTHING. The purpose of government is to protect property rights, first and foremost. And they make no pretense to doing that anymore.
No denying property tax is with out a doubt government organized theft with the threat of eviction if you do not pay up on property you own free and clear . Property ownership is a pillar of American free society ! Is it any wonder the politicians found a way to make you pay but not anger you enough to show up with torches tar & feathers .
My wife and I sacrificed financially to put our child thru private school and college and she earned a top notch nursing degree all on us ! We are high school grads that learned a work ethic early in life !
I wonder when all these college loans get forgiven if we get a refund LMAO !
When we checked the public school our child would attend and the school rep giving the group of parents the orientation in Ebonics , I had one comment to my wife “ no god dam way” . She nodded and out the door we went . I stood in line starting at 1am till 9 am to get one of 20 openings , it was first come first serve . I was number 2 !
As for us paying for public schools it was and is theft .
We were told since we use school fields for recreational sports it’s only fair , fair my ass , I paid a $2000 dollar sports fee and coaches were volunteer WTF , my property taxes were $4000 then
I feel your pain but face it if you work and save this government finds a way to fuck you dry at all possible venues of your upstanding hard working life
We can thank the Bloody Limeys for the rotten Property Tax ideas.
Property taxes in the United States originated during colonial times. By 1796, state and local governments in fourteen of the fifteen states taxed land, but only four taxed inventory. Delaware did not tax property, but rather the income from it.
In English Common Law
Fee means an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. It is a way that real-estate and land may be owned in common law countries, and is the highest possible ownership interest that can be held in real property.
Allodial title is reserved to governments under a civil law structure. The rights of the fee simple owner are limited by government powers of Taxation, eminent domain , police power and escheat .
Use the term feudal system when you’re talking about the way society was structured in medieval Europe. Military, social, and political customs all followed the feudal system, in which land was exchanged for work.
In a feudal system, a peasant or worker known as a vassal received a piece of land in return for serving a lord or king, especially during times of war. Vassals were expected to perform various duties in exchange for their own fiefs, or areas of land. The term feudal system wasn’t used until 1776, and it came from the Latin word feudum, or “feudal estate.
Congratulations, we are peasants, just a step or two away from slaves.
Slaves had no rights at all…
Getting closer by the day.
Amen!