He should have said it was a food garden and demanded a farmland assessment.
Yes, with a property tax you don't own, you just rent from the municipality.
Chicago has always been very ruthless about collecting property taxes. And look at the quality of their "vital public services".
"Free" public schools-they're tuition-free, that's all.
IIRC one of the reasons why Caiifornians approved Proposition 13 in 1978 was, if a house was sold all the other houses in that neighborhood would be reassessed. People were going through yearly re-evaluations.
In the ciities the parents with the largest number of kids in school, live off public largess, use their children as meal tickets.
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