
Our land?
- Edwin Preble
- Apr 2
- 4 min read
How the Tax Scheme Is Designed to Force Us Off Our Land
Imagine working your whole life to own a piece of land, to have a home where you and your family can live freely. Now, imagine losing it—not because you failed to pay for it, but because a rigged system is making it impossible to afford.
This isn’t just happening to a few people—it’s part of a growing scheme designed to push all of us off our land.
It’s not about taxes funding public services anymore. It’s about using tax codes, assessments, and legal loopholes to systematically transfer land from everyday people to corporations, developers, and government entities.
If you don’t pay attention now, you may find yourself priced out of your own home before you even realize what happened.
Step 1: Artificially Raising Property Taxes
One of the biggest weapons in this scheme is property tax inflation.
✔️ Reassessments That Don’t Make Sense – Tax assessors suddenly claim your land is worth way more than before, even if nothing changed. That means higher taxes, year after year, until you can’t afford to stay.
✔️ Gentrification as a Weapon – When wealthy developers move into an area, land values spike. That means long-time residents, especially lower-income families and farmers, are forced out by skyrocketing property taxes.
✔️ Special Tax Zones & Fees – Cities create “improvement districts” that add extra fees on top of regular property taxes. They claim it’s for roads, schools, or community projects—but in reality, it’s just another way to push people out.
Step 2: Using Unpaid Taxes to Steal Your Land
If you fall behind on property taxes, even by a small amount, the government and private investors are waiting to pounce.
✔️ Tax Lien Sales – If you owe even a few hundred dollars, your debt can be sold to a private investor. They tack on interest and penalties, making it nearly impossible to pay off.
✔️ Tax Foreclosures – If you can’t pay the inflated tax bill, your home can be taken and auctioned off for pennies on the dollar. Investors get rich while families are left homeless.
✔️ No Warnings, No Mercy – Many homeowners don’t even realize they’re in danger until it’s too late. Some never receive proper notice before their home is sold out from under them.
Step 3: Giving Your Land to Corporations & Developers
What happens to all the land taken through inflated taxes and foreclosures? It doesn’t go to struggling families. It goes to the rich.
✔️ Corporations Buy It Up Cheap – Banks, developers, and investment firms buy tax-foreclosed properties for a fraction of their value. Then, they turn them into luxury housing, commercial developments, or rental properties—forcing you to pay them just to live.
✔️ Foreign Investors Take Over – In many places, large chunks of land are being sold to foreign corporations and investors, pricing local residents out entirely.
✔️ The Government Expands Its Control – When private investors don’t scoop up foreclosed land, the government takes it, often turning it into “public” land that citizens can no longer use freely.
Step 4: Repeating the Cycle Until We Own Nothing
Once the scheme has worked in one area, it spreads:
1️⃣ Taxes go up again.
2️⃣ More people lose their land.
3️⃣ The land is handed over to banks, corporations, and governments.
4️⃣ Rent increases, wages stay the same, and ownership becomes impossible.
This isn’t accidental—it’s a designed system to strip us of our independence and force us into permanent renters.
The ultimate goal? To make land ownership a privilege of the ultra-rich, while the rest of us are left with nothing.
How to Fight Back
You’re not powerless. Here’s what you can do:
✔️ Challenge Tax Assessments – If your property tax seems artificially high, contest it. Many reassessments are based on faulty or exaggerated data.
✔️ Demand Local Policy Changes – Push for tax caps, protections for longtime landowners, and laws that prevent corporations from gobbling up tax-foreclosed land.
✔️ Educate Your Neighbors – The more people who understand this scam, the harder it is to enforce. Get involved in your community.
✔️ Refuse to Sell Out – If a developer comes knocking, resist the temptation to sell. Holding onto land keeps it out of corporate hands.
✔️ Push for Land Rights Laws – Some places are working to protect landowners from predatory tax policies. Demand action in your area.
The Time to Act Is Now
If we don’t stand up now, we will soon live in a world where land ownership is just a memory—where everything is owned by banks, corporations, and the government, and we’re just tenants with no real freedom.
This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s happening right now, in cities, towns, and rural areas across the world.
The question is: Will we fight back, or will we let them take everything?
Have you been affected by rising property taxes or land grabs? Share your story below—let’s expose this together.
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