# Rendell FTL

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**Created:** [February 5, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rendell-ftl/187860 "2007-02-05T13:35:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blackbelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blackbelt/32/5998_2.png) [@Blackbelt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blackbelt)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rendell-ftl/187860/45 "2007-02-06T09:39:51Z")

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> [@BeaveRun Lapping \*VID\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beaverun-lapping-vid/27761/16):
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> you live in a community. You pay property taxes. Your kids can go to school, you have roads to drive on, if your house catches on fire someone will come and put it out, if a large black man is raping you guys with guns will come and save you… you want all that for free?
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> the property tax is far more fair than the income tax. The government doesnt need to be spending billions on bullshit like space exploration when we are trillions of dollars in debt.

Property tax is anti-american. One of the basic tenets of being a free person in this country is the concept of ownership of private property. Property taxes negate that, because if i do not pay my property tax, the government will take my property off of me, so in effect i am just renting it.  
Flat income tax…the more you make, the more you pay  
Sales tax…the more you spend, the more you pay.  
Both are a LOT fairer than property taxes, ESPECIALLY when it comes to funding schools. How is is fairer for someone who owns a home and has no kids to pay $3000 a year in property taxes to a school district, while a person renting with 2 kids in the schools pay NO taxes to the school district?

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