So I go and check my mail as I always do each day and I get a bill from the county.   The county was so nice to inform me that I need to pay taxes on my car.  My car is completely paid for.  No liens.  What right has the civil government to come into my house and demand that I give them the fruit of my labor for property that I own.  Does having the power to force me to pay money make it right?  NO!  As a Christian I know from the Bible that God has instituted civil government to enforce His Law and no where in the Bible does God give the civil government power to tax private property.  Property tax is a Marxist concept not a Christian one.  

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Biblical Law speaks very clearly about property.  First of all it declares that all property, the earth itself and all creation belongs to God.  God declared to Israel, "all the earth is mine (Exodus19:5)."  "I am God…every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills…the wild beast of the field are mine…the world in mine and the fullness thereof (Psalm 50:7. 10-12)."  The New Testament restates this principle: "the earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof (1 Cor 10:26, 28); "all things are of God (2 Cor 5:18)."  God is thus the absolute lord over ALL property, and therefore His law governs ALL property.

Second, God establishes man in the possession of property under God as a basic aspect of life of the family and an essential of the economy of the family.  Two of the Ten Commandments govern property: "Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house… or anything that is your neighbor's (Exodus 20:15, 17)."

Third, God made property man's basic earthly security and a man's home is his castle in God's law.  The law did not have any provision for any property tax; indeed, it saw it only as a form of tyranny and confiscation (1 Sam 8:7-18).  The only tax God permitted or required on property was the tithe to God.  The property tax is thus properly God's tax, and a voluntary tax, depending on man's faith and obedience.  Originally, none of the American states permitted a property tax, and all were hostile to it.  On November 8, 1966, Nebraska voters abolished state property taxes and rejected also a state income tax (The Wall Street Journal, November 29, p.1, "What's News").  In Biblical law, laws of inheritance were not state laws but family laws, and there purpose was two fold-to protect the family and to protect the property.  Because the state could not tax property, a man was secure in his land, home and possessions in good times and bad.