Property law is just words in a book. If we called it “property protection”, then we may more easily recognize that this is more of an activity than a natural r

Property law is just words in a book. If we called it “property protection”, then we may more easily recognize that this is more of an activity than a natural right. And that costs money. A fee if you like, but we call it a tax so that it can be used for other purposes. And so that any reasonableness may be lent to ‘income tax’, which would sound absolutely inane if it were ‘work fees’, making clear that we must rent our own productive capacity from the government.