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Real estate doesn't require road maintenance, cars do. I agree that people have to pay the government to maintain these, but homes do remain relatively unique a
by imh 8y ago
Real estate doesn't require road maintenance, cars do. I agree that people have to pay the government to maintain these, but homes do remain relatively unique among people's possessions as a thing that you own, but have to pay ongoing taxes to keep owning. I don't think the reason why is as straightforward as "real estate needs roads/schools/etc"
- mikeash 8y agoPeople require road maintenance, unless your population is completely immobile. Cars need more of it than other modes of transportation, but roads are necessary either way, to the point that there are a bunch do special cases in real estate laws dealing with access to roads. Homes are relatively unique in being something you own and still have to pay taxes on. They’re also unique in being something whose ownership and location determines so much about your life, such as where you vote and who you vote for, whose taxes you pay (far beyond property taxes), where your children can go to school, which police department serves you, whose laws you have to follow... it seems reasonable that they would have a special tax status too.