I’m coming in late, so apologies if this is redundant to something upthread, but I’m reminded of the scenario in some Robert Heinlein novel. Maybe “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.” If I remember right, there’s no property or object tax, but everyone living in the society (in this case, a lunar colony) has to pay a tax to contribute toward the societal infrastructure supporting air and water supply. So you’re “stuff” can’t get taken away from you, but if you can’t scrape together the means to pay towards supporting essential services, you don’t get to stay.
It seems fraught with economic injustice thinking of it through our current economic lens, but maybe it will spur some ideas…?
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