Another of my pet peeves. It never ceases to amaze me when someone says, I own my house. Yea, really? What about the rent you pay the godvernment evey year?
An abomination to the constitution.
"Americans paid a record $540,701,000,000 in property taxes to state and local governments in fiscal 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That was up $16,748,620,000—or about 3.2 percent--from $523,952,380,000 in property taxes (in constant 2016 dollars) that state and local governments collected in fiscal 2015."