Oddbean new post about login | logout Basically my hash tags... It's unlawful to tax rights. To have a place to live is a substantive right. Keep paying your property taxes until you can prove/defend your rights in a court of law, then have that sit down convo with your elected tax assessor/appraiser. This is the least involved/painful method. Why do they keep doing it? Fraudulent corporate financial gain... This is why you hear all the all the anti-capitalist flap in the media... Like usual they want us to focus on and blame the billionaires and stock corporations instead of the municipal corporations that are the real legal abusers... Also many just get elected and "told" what their job is. It's up to us to educate our elected officials because many really do not know the law. Some re-education may also be necessary... 😁
Have you had a sit down with your tax assessor or know of others who have? I know there's a way to inform them through equity law I believe.
Oh no, I lost properties at tax sale. I didn't know about defense strategies. I talked to the lawyers that sold off my properties and got most of my money back... It's not good enough, but it's a start. I'm always looking for new things to learn. Losing is part of the learning process. One thing that Steve talks about is just reading the laws that control your state. Learn where those laws came from and how they got enacted. He says most of this is just ignorance (80% my guess) instead of corruption (20% my guess). Steve claims this strong rights language is in every state constitution, we just have to read. He displays irritation probably because it is right there smacking us in the face with the obviousness of the issue. Believe me, it's not easy, but it is simple. I listened to his 3 or 4 interviews for months on repeat while riding in my truck before the scales fell off my mind. I consider myself to be intelligent, but there are so many types of intelligence. It was hard for me to admit that I have been acculturated my entire life into believing certain forms of doublespeak and that while there seems to be a certain aspect of malevolence to the legalese doublespeak, it's really just my ignorance and unwillingness to comprehend how the others think. Once this admission is made, the blinders of rage come off, and you can see how they are misusing definitions by hook or crook... I don't think it takes any special branch of law (equity or otherwise) to understand the plain law as it is written. Brandon Sibley will take the paragraphs that Steve references in his interviews and just read verbatim what the law says about taxing the place you live. They aren't allowed to do it unless we let them and that's where they are twisting the word "voluntary". Steve has some special thoughts on this. No, I have not had a sit down convo with anyone. I've only made a phone call and got checks in the mail from the properties I lost. Currency is NO substitute for a place to live. I'm still learning. I'll be back! 😁
Very good! I don't know what that is, but it sounds cool... Steve claims he asked his elected property tax assessor to sign one particular form for his property. The assessor supposedly "refused to sign" with deflective language and then an outright refusal. Steve said this gave him a clue to start researching more into the legal procedures that are on the books for the correct assessment and addition of property to the commercial tax rolls. He claims he couldn't find any taxing procedure that would authorize his elected official to add Steve's home to the commercial tax rolls. This helped him form the pre-lawsuit basis of "the talk" with his elected official. He claims that it took them about a week to look into it and they called him up and said that they "took care of it"... meaning they removed his private, non-commercial home from the tax rolls. Steve seems extremely convincing to me, but nothing speaks like personal experience or even being able to personally interview him. I've only recovered monies from tax sales. I am keen on learning the front end of the process. Steve claims, at the time of the interview, that he hasn't received a tax bill in the mail for several years... Is this a ruse or a clever use of specific words to indicate an outcome that hasn't actually occurred for him? Sure, but he's dang convincing when one takes time to listen to him in totality. I got like ALL of the 5 or 7, multi-hour interviews with Steve as the guest on various call-in shows. I got them from Alphonse Faggiolo's site... I put them on repeat for like 6 months, like several hours per day while driving a semi across countries... Yes, I'm a slow learner, but when I regurgitate... Watch out! 😆