Rent is a tax that poor people pay to rich people for the right to live in society.

Every year Americans pay $512 billion in rent. That's money earned by labor and transferred to those who own property because they own property.

We pay over a third in rent what we pay in income tax ($1.3 trillion). Of you are poor, you likely pay much more in rent than in tax.
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