The founding fathers would hate to have seen property taxes. It's so unamerican and against freedom.

I can't speak for property other than the one primary residence of a citizen, but the concept of having your land taken away post-purchasing is....absurd.

"But...utilities/services/something?" Pay for them.

Primary residence purchased land ownership for citizens should be a right enshrined in the constitution.

> The founding fathers would hate to have seen property taxes. It's so unamerican and against freedom.

Every one of the original 13 states had property taxes when they won their independence from the British. They all kept those taxes throughout the process of forming the US, and they have all kept those taxes ever since. Furthermore, every state that joined the US after that either had property tax when they joined or instituted one soon after.

Every Founding Father therefore did see property taxes. Did they hate them?

Thomas Jefferson advocated a progressive property tax that would exempt the value of property below a certain point and tax the rest with the tax rising in a geometric progression as the value rises.

George Washington didn't specifically say what he thought of property taxes, but his state, Virginia, had a property tax and as one of the largest landowners in the state he was one of those taxed the most. So if he hated property taxes it wasn't enough to actually try to change them or write about it.

Benjamin Franklin believed that property was a product of social convention and thus legitimately subject to government regulation and taxation for the public good.

John Adams was OK with property taxes, as long as they were equitable. When he was President there was an armed revolt in eastern Pennsylvania over federal taxes on houses, land, and slaves and Adams sent in federal marshals to put it down.

Alexander Hamilton regarded them as legitimate, as did James Madison. Like Washington I don't think they said whether they preferred them or preferred other taxes to raise money the government needed.

When John Jay was government of New York the state had a property tax. Like Washington he did not publish an opinion on it or try to do anything to end it.

That's doesn't sound like any of them hated them.