Leonard Gilbert, Mentor Reisent
State Leader in the Movement to Abolish Ohio Property Taxes
To drive true home ownership, your home should never be a bargaining chip under any circumstances. As for the money generated from the property tax, we are not advocating that we do not pay taxes. We are only stating that we should remove the taxation mechanism away from the home. There are existing tax mechanisms that can already be used to generate revenue. If the statement is made that the tax rates would have to be high to make up the difference, that should be an indicator that the public sector has exceeded the ability of the private sector to pay for the services rendered.
So, in a nutshell, coupled with the change in the removal of the property tax, this must be coupled with a reduction in the government costs. Some things to consider, but not limited to, will include the savings associated with the removal of the cost to administer and maintain the property tax system, consolidation of entities where applicable (school districts, cities and villages), getting rid of unfunded mandates pushed down from the state to the local, shifting state priorities, and resource sharing. We call this out of the box thinking.
Why is homeownership imperative ?
“When a man is secure in the possession of his property, he has an area of liberty and dominion which is beyond the reach of other men. If no man and no state can reach in to tax and confiscate his property, man can enjoy true liberty and great security, whether he be prosperous or poor.
Every attack on private property is, therefore, an attack on man’s liberty. Man’s freedom and security in the possession of his property is not only basic to man’s independence, but it is also basic to his power. A man has power if he can act independently of the other men and the state, if he can make his stand in the confidence of liberty.
Every attack on private property therefore is also an attack on the powers of free men as well as their liberty” (R.J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty, pg. 65).
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