I always say that about real estate, you never really own it you're always renting it and still run the risk of losing it. My family had their homes forcibly taken from them in the in the 1950's and they always told me about it growing up, thats why I always saw the title to a home as nothing more than an empty promise

Honestly getting pretty tired of the libertarian "tax is theft 🤬🤪" narrative that is pretty pervasive in large parts of the Bitcoin community.

Taxes are necessary for a society to function. There will always be a certain part of the population that won't be able to take care of themselves due to all sorts of reasons that are out of their control.

My view is that you have the natural right of property no matter what. If you own your body (which you do), you own the products of your labor. Anything you get in peaceful, consensual exchange you own.

What happens with taxes is that glorified armed robbers steal from you what is rightfully yours. In the case of property tax, if you don't let the armed robbers take your money, they'll come seize your land and house.

There are only three differences between the glorified armed robbers and the common thief/mugger/burglar.

I'd rather deal with the mugger. At least when he steals from me, he doesn't try to convince me that its for the good of the people and myself.

Anything you have is only yours for as long as you can enforce keeping it from being taken by others.

Even things that potentially only exist in your head, like your private keys, aren't 100% safe from forceful extraction.

As with just about everything in life, it's all about managing risk.

I once heard someone say that when you own your house, you have earned the right to only be renting it from the government.

some people do not realize they are slaves...

This may be unpopular but there is one thing that doesn't pay tax (and, which cannot be confiscated), but it's especially valuable for us who have very few assets:

And I don't mean your private keys.

First story, a man who fled communist China with absolutely nothing but his brains and his family, including his newborn son. He luckily knew English, and that let him land a job at a newspaper agency. Life was extremely tough, he held two jobs, but he made it through. That man was my grandfather.

The second, is a friend's father, who fled El Salvador when things were terribly bad. He was a doctor there, a good one (whom for his reputation started getting chased by the government -- governments often try to censor smart people first). He fled, arrived at a new country only to realize his education and diploma was worth nothing. He didn't give up, went back to school, got a medical degree (probably took him extra 8 years), and became a doctor again. He went on to be a prominent director for decades.

I know, if you lose your mind or a car hits you while you cross the road, you're done for. But other assets might be taken from you or lost anyway.

If you lose your mind whether you have a shitload of assets/money or not, probably won't make much difference. As an example, my grandma has had dementia for about 30 years now (she's +100 years old). Money thrown at the problem hasn't helped her at all.

I'm gonna say no.

Good point through the years government planted into our minds that taxes are necessary for the economy we lose sight on the main point of rule #1 look out for #1 being sovereign....now its for the greater good....lol words that are straight out the playbook forgot what I read but talks about all the quotes they use....creepy from years ago to see the slogans now a days resurfaced reused in a new way

People don't realize that taxes on unrealized gains overstep a big big red line of one of the most fundamental rights.