Detroit..... another planet from here, or another universe?

We occasionally get asked if there's some way to quit paying property taxes. Many things have been tried. Dr. Clarkson's short answer would have been they're something that can't just be opted out of -- but that may be Changeing along with so many things in the Age of Obummer:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/302210375/
Half of Detroit property owners don't pay taxes

Note that people don't pay because basic services are provided. People post comments saying it's the other way around and if everybody would pay life would be wonderful, but as with all yankee paradises, taxes are absurdly, crazily, insanely high there, so how can they? Combine that factor with a population devolved to virtually third-world ruin and you've got a great microcosm of leftism in its essence.

Superlatives and stats from hell are in fact tragicomically easy to amass about Detroit -- can one help stumbling over them? There are websites devoted to pictures of abandoned, ruined, bedraggled Detroit architecture, including opulent, fortress-like three-story brick mansions. Much of the city is being reclaimed by nature. Photo captions from its Wikipedia article: Michigan Central Train Station, registered historic place unused since 1988; Lee Plaza, a vacant high-rise apartment building and registered historic place.

The above link was the top story at amren.com today.  Here's the second:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2013/02/21/detroit-tops-2013-list-of-americas-most-miserable-cities/

Whoa, I can't believe this -- that's a panoply of the twenty most miserable cities nationwide, and #3 is Rockford, Illinois, where high property taxes are cited as one of the main reasons for the crisis! Rockford is the home of the Rockford Institute which publishes Chronicles magazine, the first rightist magazine I ever subscribed to. They're totally free-market and Constitutional, so it's painful irony that socialism is killing their city in particular. Well, what do you want in quintessential yankee states? The survey is dominated by Illinois, Michigan Ohio and California. Why should anybody who takes this tour ever listen to yankees about anything again? (Northerners = people from outside Dixie, many of them fine. Yankees = obnoxious, overbearing Northerners.)

The next photo survey after that is on the cities Americans are moving to. Suddenly you're touring Texas and Florida. One more accidental poll for the pile! I'm not chauvinist, dear non-Southern friends and readers -- It's Better In Dixie, and millions worldwide will tell you so.

http://www.anu.org/forums/threads/604-It%E2%80%99s-better-in-Dixie

Property taxes are a curse on everything -- no less than so-called income taxes. I said a curse, and the fact is they are A CURSE. There should be an uprising among any free people the first time paper-shufflers impose either on them. The fact that we've put up with them all these years and governments are used to operating from them doesn't make them normal, and never will. It's just pure bloodsucking -- otherwise they would show some kind of sensitivity to the market or the economy. Things that operate absolutely unto themselves with no room for human considerations are how we got where we are today. The upshot of them is that only government and politicians matter -- one step removed from worshiping the emperor as God.



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