At least for property taxes you get local services like: -Police -Fire Dept -Schools -Library -Public Parks -Drinking water and sewage disposal -1-2 potholes on your street filled Is it always run well, no but you can hold local services accountable locally in a way you can't at the State and Federal level with income taxes that have a less clear value to your daily life.

At least in the US, property taxes are levied and collected by local municipalities, not the state.

And a form of unrealized capital gains.

True but what happens if you refuse to pay your property taxes one day? You get kidnapped and thrown into a room until you agree to pay them. It's extortion and robbery, plain and simple.

You don't own anything ever, everything in life is rented.

nah... you get nothing.

It's posts like this where libertarianism degenerates into anarchism.

There is a push in my locality to fix that aspect of property taxes by locking in your taxable value to what you paid for it unless you can prove that the current value is lower. A lot of the right people are on board, it might pass. It would be a big step in the right direction.