Property taxes are NOT taxes at all. To be exact, property taxes are rents of land used for public purposes, exactly as envisioned by Karl Marx.In America, when you buy a house, you really are only buying the permission to rent the use of that house and the parcel of land it sits on. You do not own it. You are renting it from the county and state government. The mortgage is nothing but a scam and a ripoff, and the term "property taxes" is but a mask and a facade designed to conceal the real deal. Fall behind on your rents of land (property taxes) and the government comes, evicts you, and orders a "sale" on the house you were renting from them. And homelessness is illegal under Federal law in the United States. Every day, homeless people get arrested and thrown in prison, and then they can never find any housing due to a criminal record. For many in poverty, eviction starts a one way road to destruction, a point of no return. All they can do is leave the United States.