125 years ago you didn't have to ask permission from Government to:

  -  Go fishing, collect rain water, use a transportation vehicle,  build a home or renovate it.

   -  You didn't have to pay tax upon tax upon tax with already taxed money.

   -  You didn't have to ask permission and pay to be married,  obtain licenses, certifications or permits to hunt, own a weapon,  become a Carpenter  or any other trade or profession.

   -  You didn't have to ask permission to protest or redress Government, or sell a product, or have your income  illegally taxed by the 16th Amendment WHICH WAS NEVER RATIFIED!

   -  You can virtually do "nothing" without being extorted by Government and obtaining their permission first.

If you still think you're "free" you're deluding yourself  - you live in an open air prison as free range humans thoroughly manipulated and controlled by the illusion of a free society, that exists only in your mind! 

No one in America actually owns their own land or homes, either. Don't pay your taxes and see how quickly the Government will take what you thought was yours.