The Importance Of Property Tax In Athens

Fellow Athenians, Our beloved city has fallen to our greatest rival, Sparta. They have destroyed our great walls and warships. We are with no government. I am here to help with my money. You may be thinking how, but I am a young man with wealth. I am offering my wealth to Athens. You may be asking why or how can we trust you and the answer is I am willing to give all my wealth to Athens the city that will be. Even though, I will be helping to fund the city’s construction the rest of the city still needs to help. Property tax is the way we need to solve this problem. Property tax is a tax which an owner of property has to pay for their property monthly. This will satisfy us since it will help rebuild the great walls. Thy will protect us from Sparta and any other invaders. In addition, the walls will connect us with Piraeus or other city-states. This is good for trade with our fellow colonies. Lastly, we should have property tax because the will help us regain our mighty naval power. Our Navy was one that was highly fear and respected, we can obtain that power once again.
One would not want property since they own property. Why should you get to own property for free? Others may think property tax is pointless. Though property tax is not pointless for certain reasons. The first reason is this tax will help us rebuild certain things in Athens like our great walls. This leads to the second reason, which is with our great walls we will be able to get our naval power back. Our naval power was one of our greatest qualities. Last reason it is not pointless is like I said owners of property should not get to own property for