Did our founders pledge their “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to secure their rights to roads, schools, and public services?
You know they didn’t. Our founders considered property ownership an inalienable right, just like life and liberty.
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can…” – Sam Adams, “The Rights of the Colonists” November 20, 1772
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”- John Adams, “Discourses on Davila”
Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. – John Adams, “Discourses on Davila”
“Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?” – Sam Adams, “The Rights of the Colonists” November 20, 1772
Our founders believed that if government can take it away “without consent” then you don’t own either your property or your liberty.
So, no. It’s not as some may think, “utter BS” that “we should do away with property taxes.”
That’s why in the 2018 Spring primary, voters passed Proposition One to “replace the property tax system with an appropriate consumption tax equivalent.”
That’s why that same Summer 90% of the Texas Republican Party convention delegates voted to abolish property tax.
That’s why, for the last 10 years, the Republican Party of Texas Platform resolved to “replace the property tax system….”
People are angry everywhere about the outrageous increase in property tax and the corruption it fosters. But Texans are starting to understand, the theft and misuse of our money is NOT the primary problem.
It’s the civil tyranny and unconstitutional violation of our natural right to own our personal property.
“Government has no other end but the preservation of property.” – John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
That’s why we created these institutions in the first place.
No Relief. No Reform. #EliminatePropertyTax