yeah I know you did not ask!
This morning I was visiting with one of my Spanish tutors for conversational practice. This particular gentleman lives in El Salvador. I had been telling him about our trip to visit the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. As conversations tend to do, we rambled, leading to our discussing property taxes which they do not have in El Salvador and most of the Central American countries.
“How nice,” I said, “we pay close to $6,000 a year on this house here in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield.” I then went on to explain that if we did not pay our property taxes the government would seize the house and sell it for those taxes.
To which he replied, “Basically then you are just renting from the government.”
He may have a point.
He’s quite an astute gentleman.