By Brian Massie, A Watchman on the Wall
Thanks to the Lake County patriot for sending this article to us.
An Affordability Fix
By eric / February 2, 2026
If Trump wants to recover the political capital he’s been spending lately there is one thing he might consider advocating for: The elimination of property taxes on people’s homes.
These taxes are an affront to the very idea of property, because if you must pay the government forever to avoid the government taking your property then it is preposterous and sad to speak of it being your property.
It is a rental property.
People do not like to think of it this way, of course. Perhaps because they know, deep down, that if they did then they’d feel owned. Perhaps they ought to feel that way, it being in congruence with the facts. The truth sometimes hurts – in a way that’s good, because it forces us to deal with reality. What does it matter whether you are obliged to pay rent rather than taxes to avoid being kicked out of where you live? The renter is at least not deluded; he knows he’s living in property that’s not his. It is proper for him to pay rent to the owner – because he isn’t the owner. But it is a degradation for a “homeowner” to have to pay to avoid being evicted from what he likes to think of as “his” house.
The degradation is particularly obnoxious when the home is – ostensibly – “paid off.” If so, then why must the homeowner continue to pay? Does it make any difference whether he is paying a mortgage or paying a tax?
Actually, it does. Paying the mortgage is proper. One does not own a thing until one has paid for a thing – and that is what paying a mortgage is. But once the mortgage has been paid – and this typically takes at least 15-30 years for most people – having to keep on paying for as long as you live in that house is just indescribably effronterous.
It is also why so many ordinary Americans are struggling, financially – through no fault of their own. It is hard to tread water – let alone get ahead – when the devaluation of the buying power of money (what is styled “inflation”) is such that you have to earn 20-30 percent more to keep up and on top of that, you have to come up with several thousand dollars every year, ad infinitum, to pay to the local commissars to avoid being homeless in the home you paid-off years ago.
There is no peace, no security. No American can ever rest on the laurels of decades of hard work and say: Well, I finally paid off my home and now all I have to worry about is food and the other basic bills – all of which suddenly become much more affordable when you’re not having to hand over five or six thousand bucks (much more, for many) every year, just to be allowed to live in that “paid for” home.
How much more financially secure would Americans be if they were – or one day, could be – actual homeowners as opposed to pitiable serfs who believe they “own” their homes? The answer is obvious. Homeowners who actually own their homes would also be freed from the need to earn substantial income – to pay the “rent” – and thereby would be able to largely avoid income taxes. Americans who work hard to buy a home – and pay it off – could be in a position, financially, to not have to work anymore by the time they reach 50 or even sooner. This was the position Americans who worked hard while they were young were in once upon a time – before there were taxes on paid-for homes and before there were taxes on income.
Things are, of course, different now. But that could change – and Trump could be the one who changes it. He could at least make the case for ending the tax that has turned everyone into a renter – for life. He could go even further. He could push for a federal ban – or lead an effort for a federal legislative ban – on states and counties taxing people’s homes. The moral case for this is hugely compelling and there has probably been no time in recent memory when the political viability of such a proposal has been better. Americans are being bled white by the cost of things they have to pay for – such as food and utilities and such. If they did not have to pay outrageous (or any) rent on their homes they are not allowed to own, it would be a tremendous counterbalance.
It would also defund the local parasites – including those who operate the government’s gulags for children – which would benefit everyone save the parasites themselves. Home learning makes government gulag’ing absurd. Why haul the poor kids to the gulag and back every day when they can be taught better at home, online?
Trump could also stop sending money to Keeeeeeeeevvvv, Tel Aviv and all those other foreign parasites and return the money to the states and thereby end any basis for the bleat that people’s homes must be taxed to pay for the gulags and other “services.”
It would – truly – Make America Great Again.
But awareness is dawning Trump isn’t really interested in that. As I type this, a yuge fleet stands poised to attack Iran for reasons that have nothing to do with making America Great Again but are quite likely to make things much worse for Americans, again.
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