This is exactly the reason why Reagan said that government is not the solution, government is the problem. Leave the man alone, you bunch of do-gooders. Man lived without electricity or sewer for what? a hundred thousand years?
Another thing is if you pay off your land, there needs to be an end at some point to the taxes on that land, this bs tax due every year forever needs to quit, so someone could live off the land at some point. Whatever.

LIMITED GOVERNMENT!! theres a solution.

I'm surprised not more ATS'ers are concerned with civil liberty's.This story is riddled with government oppression and conspiracy.They all must be on that cleavage in the work place thread.

Yes when I lived in the US this year I was aghast that each year, despite a family having paid off their property, they STILL had to pay a 'tax' on it!?

In the UK they call it 'council tax' but I figured that the US had it 'free' once a property was paid off.
How wrong I was!

Living in a vehicle is the way forward imo, no taxes and only fuel and running costs to worry about.
I hate the sick disease of government want to enslave a people by fixing them down and bleeding them white.

I had the same thing happen to me on a heavily wooded 10 acre tract I own in North Florida. I lost my job and house in 2008 so I hooked up my travel trailer and headed to my land. The trailer has all the luxuries of home, TV, DVD, radio, refrigerator, shower, toilet , bed, and hot water heater. Power was supplied by a 5000 watt generator pulling diesel from a 55 gal drum. I was no bum, I had about $11,000 from the sale of my boat and household items. I funneled waste into half a 55 gal drum and sterilized it by burning every few days. Everything was going along fine, probably because my land is in the middle of no where. But unfortunately a sheriffs deputy patrolling on the highway spotted smoke from my fire pit and investigated. I produced the title for the land as soon as he asked for it, and eventually he left. Two weeks later an army of deputies and county officials showed up while I was tilling an acre to plant watermelons, they ordered me to leave immediately. I was told that without county sewer and electrical connections I could only stay on my land for 2 weeks every year as a camper or hunter. Even one of the county guys said the ordnance was wrong, but he also said if I was there when he came back the next day he'd issue a $250 ticket, and then jail was mentioned, so I left the next morning for my brothers place. We've been there twice since on camping trips, and both times the sheriff showed up. Which means they're patrolling the dirt road in front of my property every day, and like I said, its in the middle of no where.

The notion of privat eproperty is a founding principle of this nation. Ergo, destrying the notion of private property is essential is they are to progress with their agenda of enslaving all of us and indefinitely suspending our freedoms. Tyranny knows no bounds. If is time to take up arms and take back that which is rightly ours - our liberty and our freedom!

Well well, what a surprise, you can't live on your own land and be left alone to be free. If the property taxes weren't enough to ensure that you would lose your land eventually if you weren't a good little slave who stays in their system, now you will lose it even sooner to local scum because you refuse to play the game.

This is total BS and indeed we are not a free nation or people. I however will NOT be ever forced off my land for any reason if I own it outright. If they come to remove me and I have not harmed anyone by my actions, they better come packing because I will not be leaving quietly.

I'm so sick of this sh!t...

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I was pulling fresh spring water from a deep well on the property. All bases were covered, fresh water, electricity, waste treatment. I was bothering no one, because there's no one to bother. Local governments all over the US have become little fiefdoms ruled by tax leaches that can't stand the thought of anyone not paying maximum taxes and fees. They know full well that their ordnances will force the landowner to pay them for extremely expensive sewer permits , well permits, building permits, electricity permits, final inspections, and environmental impact fees. I checked it all out, there is no way I can afford it, I can barely pay their property taxes.