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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars/index.html
Trump proposes building 10 ‘freedom cities’ and flying cars

Former President Donald Trump on Friday proposed building up to 10 futuristic “freedom cities” on federal land, part of a plan that the 2024 presidential contender said would “create a new American future” in a country that has “lost its boldness.”

Commuters, meanwhile, could get around in flying cars, Trump said – an echo of “The Jetsons,” the classic cartoon about a family in a high-tech future society. Work to develop vertical takeoff and landing vehicles is already underway by major airlines, auto manufacturers and other companies, though widely seen as years away from reaching the market.

“I want to ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility,” Trump, who announced his third bid for the presidency in November, said in a four-minute video detailing his plan.

He said he would launch a contest to charter up to 10 “freedom cities” roughly the size of Washington, DC, on undeveloped federal land.

“We’ll actually build new cities in our country again,” Trump said in the video. “These freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American dream.”

Property taxes have got to be the most anti-freedom thing to have (especially when our property taxes fund groomers in our public education system and power-tripping abusive law enforcement officers). Americans often flaunts the hardest and loudest of supposedly being the "freeiest people/country on earth" while happily being rear-end reyp'd by their federal and and state government with property taxes or else big daddy guberment will take away their houses even if they already fully paid off their mortgages.

Granted, only a few countries in the world don't charge property taxes toward people who already paid off their homes but at least the majority of other countries (with or without property taxes) never claimed to be the "land of the free".

If America truly wants to live up to their "land of the free" title, one of the things they should do is abolish property taxes and replace it with a much less intrusive tax system.

Basic Definition: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

doesn't mean that’s the only or even the right definition. Words have usages more than absolute definitions. So what is freedom to you?