You can still be a slave and "own" your own home, drive your "own" car - and, to the extreme - even if you have "title" to them. Individual property rights are dead so long as you are taxed on those things each year as you are assessed fees against them. If you try and pass them down to your children, you are taxed 50%. The American dream is officially dead in my mind.
Here is the article that got me spun up:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/19/world-wealth-oxfam_n_6499798.html
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