I mean I paid for it like I would anything else I wanted. They charge a tax at checkout. So if I buy a house and pay the whole thing off, why do I still have to pay taxes on said house when I paid the whole agreed on price in full? It would be like me buying a six pack of beer I pay for it and tax at checkout. But then timely I have to keep paying taxes on the beer even though paid in full?
Property taxes aren’t sales taxes, they are more like fees. Used to fund libraries, roads, schools, public transportation, all the stuff that makes a city better plus cops and, well, you can read your millage paper to see what it’s spent on. If there was not property tax the sales tax would have to be so high, and that is regressive. I do think the exemption should be higher and rates higher so that lower priced houses paid less to nothing and the million dollar houses paid more, but as it stands I get my money’s worth from that particular tax.