NATURAL RIGHTS, DUE PROCESS AND OUR LAW OF THE LAND. HAVE WE BEEN HOODWINKED INTO ABANDONING THESE?Municipalities are just regular corporations, like McDonald’s Hamburgers, and they, like McDonald’s, were never granted taxation authority. Instead, the U.S. Constitution’s Origination Clause specifies that taxes-in-any-form need to originate in the legislature. So how – solely through local budget votes – can town corporations tax private homes? Lawfully, they cannot. Maybe, though, homeowners are under contract with the town, owing money in this manner. No, other than de facto local road usage, residents do not sign-up for town corporate services, nor do homeowners owe residency rents for property they already own, nor do homeowners earn taxable income on their dormant homes until sold. Lacking bills of sale, homeowners have no commercial obligation with the town corporation whatsoever. Instead, home taxation wantonly tramples our natural rights to life, liberty and property. It side steps legislative authority, ignores contract law, and abandons due process altogether, the firewall protecting the individual against government overreach into one’s day-to-day life. Our rights to life, liberty and property are inalienable - neither able to be given away nor taken from us. What then, are these twice-a-year 4, 5 & even 6-figure municipal tax invoices founded upon? But what to do ?To be Constitutional, social program mandates – like free K-to-12 education – must only be funded via legislatively-approved, state-wide, commercially-based taxes, with pooled monies pro-rated down to all towns, reflecting equal protection across all student head counts across all educating institutions - public, private & home schools. Hoodwinked Volume I cites U.S. Constitutional law to reverse home taxation, pushing mandate, funding and equal protection responsibilities back up to the state legislatures where they belong. And though you may say pushback on home taxation amounts to tilting at windmills, I invite you to explore these pivotal Constitutional issues.
