The tax is odious for that reason alone – in that it means a person will never own their home, no matter how many decades they pay rent and no matter how much they have had to pay over those decades. The sum can easily run to what amounts to 50 percent or even more of the original purchase price of the home, which is confiscatory taxation.

The argument in defense of this is that the tax is based not upon the purchase price but rather upon the "assessed value" of the home at some point after the purchase. The "assessment" being performed by agents of the same government that will evict you from what isn't your home if you do not pay the rent styled "property taxes" based on the "assessment." The claim is that the value of the house has increased – but the fact is this is a hypothetical unless the house is sold. So what it amounts to is an unrealized capital gains tax, something almost as effronterous as applying income tax to income not earned. It is more effronterous than that because we are talking about people's homes – the place where they live. The homes they bought based on what they could afford. The rent styled "property tax" makes the home unaffordable at some point, forcing the renters to sell and move – a form of expropriation.

One could avoid the income tax by not earning income subject to taxation. But that is not possible when one must pay the ever-increasing rent styled "property taxes" because of the necessity to earn income as most people do not have enough savings to pay the rent without earning the income necessary to pay it. Thus most people never stop working – in order to avoid being forced out of what isn't really their home by the entity that is really the landlord.

DeSantis is the first prominent politician to publicly agree with the above sentiments and that is what makes him unlike all the other politicians – including the "conservative" ones, who think that it's congruent with what they style "limited government" to impose endless rent that can and almost always is increased to pay for government. For "services" they will often say are "needed"  or even "essential" – according to them. It does not matter to these "limited government conservatives" that using the government to force others to pay for these "services" makes them morally indistinguishable from the "big government" liberals they pretend to oppose.