As I said, each state has to generate revenue somehow. No one is going to live for free, pick your poison. In Missouri you can live in a mobile home with no basement and only pay personal property tax on it each year, if it's on a basement, it become real estate tax each year, but you pay a one time sales tax on it when you first buy it. I love the way real estate tax goes up each year on a house that's worth more, but I have no intention on selling. As the state likes to say, but if you did, it's worth more. So, how many years on a fixed income before they drive you out of a house you never wanted to move from. Your house may be paid for and you think it's yours, try not paying taxes on it each year and see how fast you're going to find yourself living in the streets next to guy that never had anything. They give to him and take from you, now you're both equal. Really makes you want to climb the social ladder, doesn't it..............