Here’s the thing - your taxes are used to pay for things like road maintenance, policing, fire protection, often waste disposal, etc. Witholding those services from you without affecting your abutters / neighbors is often impossible; so the state leans on the theory of eminent domain to enforce it. Keep in mind that your ability to actualize your ownership of that property is usually enforced through policing and military defense (unless you have a private army), so it is contingent anyway. So no, you can’t truly own anything outside the authority of the state (or your own use of force, which of course has limits) to confirm your ownership.
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