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.
I paid off my mortgage last month. Thirty years.
The bank sent the deed over. Congratulations, it's yours free and clear.
Two weeks later, the county tax bill arrives. $9,400. And that's not a one-time payment. That's every year until I die.
Stop paying it and eventually they can take the house. The one I just spent three decades paying off.
So what actually changed?
For thirty years I paid a bank to live in my own house. Now I pay the county to live in my own house.
Different envelope. Same arrangement.
Nobody ever finishes paying for a home. You just run out of banks.
America is the most armed nation on Earth, and it's not close.
Americans own about 393 million guns. That's 120.5 for every 100 people.
Second place? Yemen, at 52.8.
We're about 4% of the world's population. We own about 46% of its civilian guns.
And American civilians own roughly 3 times as many guns as every military on Earth combined.
🔫 44% of American homes have a gun.
🔫 29 states now let law-abiding adults carry without a permit, including Kentucky. CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY.
🔫 26 million Americans became first-time gun owners from 2020 to 2024.
Canada: 34.7 per 100.
The UK: about 4.9.
Japan: 0.3.
The Founders knew exactly what they were doing.
Shall not be infringed. 🇺🇸
It keeps happening...
There are 42 states that hold bartenders accountable if the customers they over serve kill someone but 0 states that hold Judges accountable if the criminals they release kill someone.
This needs to change.