[ CYPHER CODE #691]
Ownership no longer ends at purchase. It ends where the state decides it does.
[ CYPHER CODE #692 ]
Annual property taxes turn private assets into government-leased property.
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When you’re taxed every year for something you already paid for, you don’t own it.
BRIEFING
Grant here. A woman in Virginia has come to realize something that most Americans probably never fully think through. Even after you buy a car, even after it’s paid off, even after sales tax, registration fees, and insurance, the state still sends you a bill. Every single year. Not for driving it. Not for registering it. Just for owning it. Which begs the question, do you even really own your car? Let's break it down.
In Virginia, this fee is called a personal property tax. It applies to cars, trailers, campers, RVs, boats... basically, if the county says you own it, the county says you owe. The tax is based on an assessed value set by the government, multiplied by a rate per one hundred dollars, then charged for every month the property is in your possession. Twelve months of ownership means twelve months of taxation.
In this woman's case, the bill comes once a year, right around Christmas: $2,144.45. And bear in mind this is separate from tags, registration, or anything related to actually using the vehicle. This technically isn't even a fee, and it's certainly not optional. It's simply a recurring charge for possession.
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“I didn’t know I’d be taxed EVERY YEAR just for owning my car.”
Virginia taxes cars, trailers, campers, RVs & boats EVERY YEAR — even when they’re paid off. Same vehicle, same owner… $2,104.45 just to own it. SEPERATE from tags & registration.
“They're taxing OWNERSHIP.” pic.twitter.com/6V5E9hMoG9
— MatrixMysteries (@MatrixMysteries) December 16, 2025
What's more, this "ownership tax" is not unique to Virginia. Other states like Mississippi, Rhode Island, Missouri, and Kentucky apply similar personal property taxes under different names and structures. But Virginia’s system is unusually explicit, and it doesn't hide behind the pretense that this is about roads or safety.
DEBRIEFING
What this Virginia bill exposes is not just some quirky local tax policy, but an overall mindset where "ownership," at least as the public understands it, is slowly being redefined as conditional permission from the government.
Virginia’s personal property tax explicitly highlights this perspective around ownership. Even after a car is paid off, even after sales tax is collected, the state continues charging for the mere act of possessing it. Miss a payment and penalties follow. In practical terms, the vehicle never fully belongs to the owner. It's leased indefinitely from the government.
This is why the woman in the video is outraged. Most people still think taxes are transactional, where you pay when you buy something. You pay to register it. You pay to use public roads. But this personal property tax is in a whole different lane.
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Ownership that requires annual permission isn’t ownership at all.
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The same goes for homes. No one in this country owns a home (or land). We are charged property taxes every year. Don’t pay then lose your home. I realize that the PD and FD rely on these taxes but retirees and disabled should be exempt.
That woman is not “outraged” as the author contends………she’s smiling throughout. I know rage when I see it. Now, as to the tax – that is outrageous! It’s government theft. Legalized theft. It’s also an example of the fallacy of the debate about which states are high tax and which are not. In CA, you pay for tags. That’s it. And it’s nowhere near $2,600. There is no personal property tax. And again – this is CA we’re talking about. VA is toast.
As a Californian I am wondering when our state adopts this communist policy.
Colorado has been doing it for over 25 years…
I’ve lived in Colorado for 35 years and have never gotten a tax bill for any car I’ve owned.
Same in CT. I never knew it, and got a $900 bill around 15 years later, after moving to two different states (no idea how they tracked me down).Tax, penalties and interest for a vehicle in the state for around 6 months. As it happens, although I would still owe the money, because of the time elapsed they could not legally collect it if I waited another few months to pay it. Somehow I was able to pry that tidbit of info from the DMV rep. Needless to say, they’re still waiting another 20 years later.
Of course they were able to track you down. The systems are all linked these days.
If you vote for leftard IMBECILIC demoCRAPS this is what you get!!!!!! Happy voting fools!!!!! You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY!!!!!!
I tell everyone to either vote with your feet, run for office, or shut up about your state’s dysfunction.
Don’t live in shithole states
driving is privledge not a right… so these taxes are miserable to be sure… however, the real problem lies with the property taxes! same problem only owning property is a right. I shouldn’t have to rent my property from the government for the rest of my life with the penalty for not paying being that they will take it from me by force.
I can live without a car. I can’t live without the property I’ve paid off *except the biannual tax rent)
NC does the same thing; City of Asheville even charges a “vehicle fee” separate from the tax.
It is time for every American to stop paying taxes and buying insurance, and stop being a slave to government and big corporations. If everyone did this, the tyrants would crumble. They do not have the ability to arrest and prosecute all of us, and in all actuality, we are not constitutionally obligated to allow government to keep stealing from us. We never were, but nobody wants to rock the boat, which is why we are in the mess we are in. JUST SAY NO.
Wait for it… Some will get a free car…. yes. Some will only get that opportunity to pay out MORE so others will get a Free car. BTW… That is Marxist behavior and a punishment for ownership. Once it swings to Communism a Registry of who paid more will result in their losing that car outright to ONE who will be a card-carrying Commie. Now you know… ‘To the Wall with them!’ will be applied.
Also don’t own my house, even though I paid cash for it. And in Northern Virginia we have “express lanes” that taxpayers paid for but only rich “elites” can use. Just like the special lanes they used to have for the nomenclature in Moscow. Virginia, once mother of Presidents, is now a soviet socialist state.
Institute the Fair Tax on spending and eliminate every other tax. Highly visible, simple to collect, hard to avoid, virtually no bureaucracy, and no burden of record keeping and filing. OTOH, you suddenly unemploy a legion of government employees and the entire tax industry, all of which produces nothing. Only when people see the true cost of government will it be reigned in and freedom restored.
People create wealth; governments need wealth. Cows create milk, and farmers need milk for a profit. Governments milk people of their wealth just like farmers milk cows.
Everyone missed the “best” part of personal property taxes in Virginia. Years ago I received a $300 bill from York County, VA for a boat valued at $15,000. Problem is I never owned a boat that large or expensive in my life. The County Treasurer told me they sent me a letter about the boat but I never answered. They refused to provide a copy of the letter they claimed to have sent. So they created a mythical boat and billed me for it – perfectly legal in VA. Their reason was that I registered a “boat” trailer but never a boat – and no one would ever own a boat trailer without a boat. I told her I registered a canoe and kayak trailer. Her response was extremely clear – “It is your responsibility to inform us when you didn’t buy a boat for the trailer”. The Treasurer – and her deputy – insisted I was totally at fault and York County was fully within its rights because I was trying to avoid paying taxes. She also claimed the $300 was NOT a tax, but rather an assessment! They got both barrels of a proverbial verbal 12-gauge shotgun blast because I rightfully went off on those two morons. While in the end they finally agreed I didn’t own a boat and didn’t have to pay, it was an OUTRAGEOUS AND EGREGIOUS abuse of government power. Suffice it to say we weren’t friends when I left her office. They honestly believed I was wrong for believing they have no right to create personal property out of thin air in order to tax it. To top it off the Board of Supervisors refused get involved or help to change the law by claiming the Treasurer is an elected position and she was within the powers of her office.
I live in Texas, so I rent my house and all my land, too.
The State of Virginia is trying to teach you something, in a very ham-fisted way, that rich people have known since income taxes were first introduced; “own nothing, control everything”. I’m no lawyer, but if the car was owned by a Trust or a company, or it was leased, my guess is, you probably wouldn’t be getting a tax bill. Rich people know that. It explains why they are rich, and you are making whiney TicTocs about getting quadruple taxed.
Capitalism is Socialism for rich people.
I like what that guy said. This planet and stuff was given to us and we have to PAY to live here. What?