Anyplace you have to pay a property tax, you do not "own" the property.
Something like a services tax would be more reasonable.
for example I don't need cops so why should I pay for them?
I do need a fire dept so I'm more than willing to pay for them.
Give me me the bill after they are done.
 

Anyplace you have to pay a property tax, you do not "own" the property.
Something like a services tax would be more reasonable.
for example I don't need cops so why should I pay for them?
I do need a fire dept so I'm more than willing to pay for them.
Give me me the bill after they are done.
 

There are no states in the US with zero property tax.

That would include the utopian state of Washington.

Wait until you start asking who really owns your “investments”

Johnson and the fisherman protestors want the mayor to cancel the minatoya list, which was established over 20 years ago to allow certain areas to do nightly rentals to tourists.

To cancel this now would be a government taking, so it would require paying fair market value. On a long term rental, rentals are about $3000/ month. On a vacation short term rental, they can make about $10,000/ month. And it generates a lot of service jobs.

Displaced persons could rent these now, but they want it free. The mayor wants voluntary compliance ie for people to voluntarily give up $80,000/ year.  No thanks, not me. He can take away that property right and pay for it in perpetuity. But that would bankrupt the County.

I know of Kupuna that lost their home, could not pay the mortgage, When they had to stop short term rentals.  So we would trade one set of homeless for another set.

I dont have a magic solution, but this aint it.

There are no states in the US with zero property tax.

That would include the utopian state of Washington.

You would bring up Washington.
Tribal land is not taxable
at all, as by definition their land is held "in Trust" by the Federal government.
That is why Hawaiians look so stupid resisting classification
as a "tribe".  eg. the Akaka bill.
Most all of Hawaii could be Federal trust land.
perish the thought that Democrats would lose control
over taxes and Hawaiians would get that power.
Most Hawaiians I know,  hate taxes more than I do.
BTW WA state is NOT a utopia, it is just just way more freedom
oriented than Hawaii in regards to observing the US Constitution.
Hawaii state ignores the Constitution almost entirely.
Gun laws are a good example.
Virtually every gun law Hawaii has, have been overturned by
various Federal courts on the mainland.
Y'all see any changes here??
 

You would bring up Washington.
Tribal land is not taxable
at all, as by definition their land is held "in Trust" by the Federal government.
That is why Hawaiians look so stupid resisting classification
as a "tribe".  eg. the Akaka bill.
Most all of Hawaii could be Federal trust land.
perish the thought that Democrats would lose control
over taxes and Hawaiians would get that power.
Most Hawaiians I know,  hate taxes more than I do.
BTW WA state is NOT a utopia, it is just just way more freedom
oriented than Hawaii in regards to observing the US Constitution.
Hawaii state ignores the Constitution almost entirely.
Gun laws are a good example.
Virtually every gun law Hawaii has, have been overturned by
various Federal courts on the mainland.
Y'all see any changes here??
 

There are tribal lands that are not held in trust.

Allotted Indian lands held in trust by the United States are an instrumentality
employed by the United States for the benefit and control of this dependent
race, and so are immune from state taxation." Trust status is
what provides immunity from state taxes.

Lands not held in trust by the Federal government for the benefit of the tribe
would generally not share immunity and would, therefore, generally be
subject to state property taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/indian-tribal-governments/itg-faq-12-answer-do-tribal-members-pay-real-estate-taxes

it's not as simple as one might assume:
https://snohomishcountywa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6373/Updated-County-Taxation-in-Indian-County-Outline