property tax (theft) is most eggregious ‘tax’ of them all.
oh, you own the home and land outright?
now pay us annually or else we’ll steal it from you and you have no recourse.
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Yeah that one always pissed me off the most as well. You can spend 30 years paying for your home, and then lose it because you've reached retirement age and no longer have the income you had during the 30 years you worked to pay off a mortgage.
Or worse yet, pay it off and loose it to a tax lien