My house has been paid off for six years.
No mortgage. No lender. Not a dollar owed on it.
Took my wife and me nineteen years and every spare paycheck to get there.
Except the county bill this year was $9,400 in property taxes alone.
Don't pay it, and eventually someone with a badge shows up to take a house we already own free and clear.
On top of that, we paid 30% in income tax this year.
Sales tax on every single purchase.
Gas tax every time the tank gets filled.
We finished paying the bank.
We never actually stopped paying for the house.
We just started paying someone new.
TAXATION IS THEFT.
Property tax shouldn't exist on a home that's already paid in full.
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HYPOTHETICALLY… IF I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $125,000 IN 2002 AND THE COUNTY NOW SAYS IT’S WORTH $487,000, WHERE DID I ACTUALLY MAKE $362,000?
Did I sell it? No.
Did I receive $362,000? No.
Did somebody hand me a check for the new assessed value? Obviously not.
But my property taxes still go up because, on paper, my house is suddenly worth hundreds of thousands more.
That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.
This isn’t income.
It isn’t cash sitting in my bank account.
It’s a number someone assigned to my property, and now I’m being billed based on that number.
If my stock portfolio doubles but I don’t sell, I haven’t turned that gain into cash.
If my salary stays the same, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax because someone thinks I’m worth more.
So why does owning a home work differently?
WHY AM I PAYING TAX ON A GAIN I NEVER REALIZED?
A house isn’t just an investment.
It’s where people live.
You can pay off the mortgage, own the property outright, and still face a bigger bill every year because the value of the house went up on paper.
At some point, you have to ask what “owning” something actually means if the cost of keeping it can keep rising because of money you never received.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER THE HOUSE IS “WORTH” MORE.
IT’S ABOUT BEING CHARGED FOR VALUE YOU NEVER TURNED INTO CASH.
And people are starting to notice.
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🚨 WHY THE F*CK HAS NO ONE SHOWN ME THIS $BTC CHART UNTIL NOW???
This cycle theory makes total sense... and what it means for this bottom is insane.
Between cycle highs, we get "mid-cycle" highs which aren't as aggressive.
We also get mid-cycle lows... which happened to be a massive fakeout in 2019.
The only other time we have seen this is right now.
So, this could indicate that the $BTC bottom is in.
And the expansion will be towards a cycle high.
$200K+ for Bitcoin this cycle.
$BULL Strong Buy Here, RSI 32 MACD Bullish Divergance
$SPY Stuck in a tight spot here, it's make or break moment. Bullish divergance on 4hr and can see further upside trend, if we end green tomorrow for a Santa Rally 🎅 Otherwise Grinch year it is!
🚨BREAKING: Bitcoin pumped $3,300 and liquidated $106 million worth of shorts in just 30 minutes.
But then it dumped $3,400 and liquidated $52 million worth of longs in next 45 minutes.
Insane level of manipulation in crypto.