Comments by "basspig" (@basspig) on "Top 10 Towns Offering Free Land in the United States." video.

  1. Now find me a property that's free of Taxation and I will buy it.
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  2.  @MrOlson4863  I'm looking for a location where I can live as a free American, not a TaxSlave to the local teacher's union. There may be a place in Alaska, but access is by airplane only.
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  3.  @christiancramerhawaiirealt5690  I read that last summer when I was doing research. But property is darned near impossible to afford in Hawaii. Plus its a Socialist state like CA.
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  4.  @suijinnoname6412  I'm a retired person who's already been asset-stripped by my local government. I'm also annoyed with the number of third-worlders invading my state. Japan is looking better every week.
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  5.  @raydavison4288  The thing about some of those areas are the cops are crazy and dangerous criminals themselves. I think I have to look outside the US. Even if you're in nowhereland USA, the feds will get ya. Thinking of Randy Weaver and others.
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  6.  @7munkee  In the wilderness, the only visitors are usually Feds, EPA and that crap, telling you to get off your land because your presence disturbs the "environment".
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  7.  @juliusquasar1565  Is there even such a place that has not already been claimed by the Epsteins of the world?
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  8. @P C The purpose of buying your own land and building your own home is to avoid having regular expenses like rent, which are unavoidable. These regular expenses erode savings and destroy individual wealth.
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  9.  @richvanek1363  Doesn't bother me because it's based on consumption, which I can control. I can't control some pencil jocky in town hall marking up the value of my property 10,000% and then saying I own tax on that new amount.
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  10.  @Jazzykatt23  I already pay car tax and registration taxes that pay for the roads.
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  11.  @infernalchaos1066  Where I currently have lived for the past 53 years (which I built as my retirement home), when I built it, it was the middle of nowhere. Which was perfect, because I'm an audiophile and don't want any neighbors nearby to be bothered by my music. The problem is that for decades, I could not get reliable electricity and phone up here. It's gotten better, but now taxes have priced me out of the house I thought I owned. Going back to the dark ages seems to be the only way to survive without having your property stolen from you by tax collection scams. No internet, no cell, no phones and a diesel generator.
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  12.  @kathytucker2912  No interest in turd-world shitholes full of savages.
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  13.  @infernalchaos1066  We have 200A service and we strain it to the max. Our neighbor's lights dim when the bass hits hard, so I've been told. I think a CAT 450 genset would be useful for these loads out in the wild. But diesel in cold weather brings its own set of challenges.
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  14.  @juliusquasar1565  Even if it were possible to find an island, the challenges of surviving big storms, enemy invasions by rogue pirates or rogue regional governments is a problem. One of the reasons I chose not to live in the south USA was not wanting to be subject to regular destruction from tornadoes.
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  15.  @juliusquasar1565  New Hampshire seems like a possibility, but they still have a pretty high property tax. But the Free State Project operates out of Keene, NH and there are a growing number of Libertarians there.
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  16.  @infernalchaos1066  I researched Alaska a few years ago and found these too. Only problem is the area is covered in 40' of snow most of the year and the only way in or out is by airplane.
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  17.  @infernalchaos1066  I did a little research on those two Alaskan towns and they don't look bad. I did note one town's site displayed the current temperature. Which was about 30°F colder than here in the northeast. The things that matter, are a stable geological area, clean ground water and clean air, and a high elevation above flood areas. Challenging to find all of those. How's the internet out there? Satellite only option?
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  18.  @infernalchaos1066  If you're on the coast and have constant wind, that can be a good investment. Internet is still a problem if you're away from neighbors though. Seems that privacy comes with the penalty of no access to internet.
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  19.  Adymn Sani  I looked into Seasteading. A number of people are trying to raise money to build a Libertarian floating city. But storms at sea can kill you easily.
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  20.  @evianevans3057  I presently live in a bomb shelter/bunker that I built during the cold war era. Very safe from nature's perils, and so far has held together during the louder listening sessions with my 20,000-watt sound system. I would not risk my life's creations to a flimsy structure like a mobile trailer house.
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  21.  @evianevans3057  Will it withstand a tornado? How long will a mobile home keep out a SWAT team armed with battering rams?
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  22.  Tom  I came out of retirement years ago to work for myself. But it's risky without an occupational license, business license and tax permits and other requirements, which are above my head. I treat each customer as a 'work for hire' contract and leave it at that. If I don't do that, I can't pay the property taxes on my modest dwelling.
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  23.  @TheVik2727  LOL.. the problem with people is that they believe life on earth is the gateway to this "heaven" and so they tolerate great injustices. But they will be sorely disappointed to find there is no afterlife.
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  24.  @infernalchaos1066  So, you can OWN your home in those parts of Alaska, and the government doesn't bother you there? It's good to know there are a couple of towns that can be accessed by road year round and don't impose property taxes. But there must be a catch, otherwise everyone in the US would move there. What's the catch?
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  25.  @infernalchaos1066  Is solar practical at all, or too much snow and not enough sun? How do you store energy when the wind isn't enough?
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  26.  @infernalchaos1066  I only get to turn on the big system once or twice a month and our electric bill is $742 on average lately. $400 of it is "delivery charges". The rest is generation fees and about ten different taxes.
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  27.  @evianevans3057  I don't know any mobile that can support a 30x40 home theater with an 18' ceiling and 20kW of sound equipment.
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  28.  @larrylinn8589  If the services mean being rousted out of bed by a SWAT team at zero dark thirty, or being harassed because my lawn or house doesn't look as nice as the rich folks next door, I'll prefer none of them.
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  29.  @larrylinn8589  Fire dept always comes after your house burns down. Police harass the citizens and only serve the interest of the State. USSC ruled police have no duty to protect citizens! Ambulance, to what? A hospital that's going to kill me with drugs and malpractice? Public streets? In a free market economy we'd all have flying cars.
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  30.  @harmonywithall.6213  I don't care what happens after I'm dead, but I do not want to be forcibly removed from the house I built with my bare hands over a 40 - year period, alone, without help.
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  31. @John Taylor Having lived through the Great Depression and having had to have scratched out an existence in the shadow of the massive fiasco known as the Federal Reserve, having known a tax rate of 1% through the decade following and now seeing it's effectively about 92% when all taxes and inflation are considered, America is now the socialist country. I feel sorry for the kids growing up today though, because they will pay the highest taxes ever levied in America, and possibly the world, as the Fed tries to print off UBI for the mass unemployed. As for land ownership, it's a lie. I'd be happy if I could own land and be clear of any recurring expenses, as I spend my twilight years seeking peace and quiet.
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  32. @victoria zabaras You have it backwards. The Property Tax is the Second Plank on the Communist Manifesto. Ownership of all property by government is Communism.
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  33. @victoria zabaras I'm not going to argue with you. Obviously public schools are teaching differently these days than when I went (the 1920s). The fact is, you are NOT free if someone is pointing a gun to your head to extort money from you or they steal your home. This has nothing to do with the pedophiles in DC. It is part of the Communist Manifesto, which is part of the history books (maybe the Communists have expunged them from your library). Freedom can only exist when you own your land and are safe from a mob (the government) stealing it from you.
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  34.  @kittymcpaws4862  I've come to realize that you only own what you can defend with a machine gun by standing in front of it. That lady from Nebraska used to say that, the one who did the hour long talk about Islamic sexuality.
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  35.  @RX-8GT  I don't know if I could tolerate the culture there though, even if there were no taxes. One of the reasons I'm trying to move to Japan is to get away from hearing Spanish being spoken everywhere I go.
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  36.  @RX-8GT  Not completely, but they don't tax your house as new when it is old. Contrast a house in the US, $10,792 taxes on 1084 sq ft on 1/2 acre with $300 taxes on a 3000 sq ft on 1 acre of land. That is my friend's house in Kanagawa, a Machiya style house built in 1850. He paid $48K for it, invested $40K to modernize it and it is gorgeous. I'm trying to get a foot in the door there so I can get permanent residency. I am facing $70K in tax liens in the US for a home I built for next to nothing in 1966. Land of the Free, my ass.
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  37.  r2d23678  I presume you're inside the Indian national territory. But you must be native American to live there, yes?
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  38.  @chicagotom1643  I don't think that will work. The towns check for NPOs on the deed.
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  39.  @mmtrenzasybellezas7341  I looked into Cayman back in the 1990s and found out you must invest six figure sums to become a 'citizen' which allows you to buy land and live there.
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  40.  @infernalchaos1066  I run an amp repair shop and also have a home theater with a 20,000-watt sound system. That's my biggest power demand. Then there's the submersible pump for the well and the electric ranges and clothes dryer. Air conditioning would not be much of a need in Alaska, I presume. I've been looking ways to relieve our $700+ monthly electric bills. We have too many trees for solar to work. But the big problem is storing energy for the 18 or so hours when there is no direct sun on the panels. I calculated 36kW of panels to make enough power to store overnight. However, storage of that much energy is very expensive. I was told $400K worth of batteries.
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  41. @Debbie M Denali Junction is one of them. Quite cold out that way though.
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  42.  @petuniasevan  I've got grandchildren that age. But that sounds like a managed 'retirement' community HOA thing. I want land in the middle of nowhere, as I'm an audiophile. Don't want any neighbors.
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  43.  @lauradeeisme  A land tax is the second plank of the Communist Manifesto.
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  44. @victoria zabaras You're insane. Are you part of ANTIFA?
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  45.  @kittymcpaws4862  The purpose of paying your lifetime networth for a piece of land is so you can OWN the land. I did not buy a 'rental permission'. I bought the land!
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  46.  @kittymcpaws4862  A better system is one in which individual rights are sacrosanct and no entity is allowed to violate them.
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  47.  @kittymcpaws4862  The problem is that democracy is mob rule. So you need nuclear weapons to protect your land from the mob.
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  48.  @RX-8GT  Yep, all this great real estate (there are 8 million abandoned homes in rural Japan) and only available to live in if you're one of the fortunate who can get a visa or permanent residency to remain in Japan. I can buy land, but I have to leave every 90 days and I am not allowed to work there.
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  49.  @RX-8GT  Yes. The minimum to start a small business is ¥3 million investment capital on deposit at the bank account for the business. I get 3 years to turn a profit or deportation. If I succeed, permanent residency.
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  50.  @RX-8GT  My friend is having the time of his live in Kanagawa. He loves it there and he's got wonderful neighbors that treat him like a VIP, give him fresh vegetables from the garden, etc. He's got the ideal situation as his neighbors love audio and visit him several nights a week to enjoy listening to music on his audiophile system.
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  51.  @georgecarlin2879  I have not been able to find a lawyer that didn't laugh at that concept and say that it is a myth.
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  52.  @robertbowen6610  Where in TN? The only places in the US that I know of are Denali Burough in Alaska and Delta Junction in the same state.
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  53.  @MyChihuahua  What does a land patent accomplish and how can you get it?
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