That lawmaker, state Rep. Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon, spoke to Fox News Digital on Thursday ahead of his latest effort to end the collection of such taxes in the Keystone State.

Diamond will put forward a resolution — titled HB 900 — which Fox News Digital learned exclusively will be filed imminently. The document is a draft constitutional amendment he hopes will go to the voters on Election Day, and not a typical piece of legislation requiring gubernatorial approval.

Pennsylvania Republicans previously utilized the constitutional amendment process to accelerate the rollback of COVID-19 lockdowns imposed by then-Gov. Tom Wolf and then-health secretary Rachel Levine — by placing the amendment directly before voters on Election Day.

“Property taxes are an issue that is not exactly partisan, because in some areas, it’s more of a big deal than in others,” Diamond said, citing varying relationships between taxes and school district funding.

Lebanon, he said, is kind of “middle-of-the-road,” but that just to the east in Allentown and Mount Pocono, property taxes are a “big deal.”

“For me, the ‘big deal’ is that I want people to own their homes and not have to rent from the government, all across Pennsylvania,” he said.

In a recent post on his Substack, Diamond quipped that every time the topic comes up, “folks get all twisted into knots over how we’re going to pay for the things those taxes currently pay for — frankly, they’re missing the point.”

“Boiled down to its very essence, fulfilling the promise of personal liberty is impossible if you can’t actually own a piece of real property,” he said.

Diamond noted to Fox News Digital how late Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno called the ability to be “master of [one’s] fate” the “greatest joy that can be experienced by mortal man…. None shines with greater luster and imparts more innate satisfaction and soulful contentment to the wearer than the golden, diamond-studded right to be let alone.”

“Everything else in comparison is dross and sawdust,” Musmanno said in 1966, a quote which Diamond repeated to emphasize his point.

State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Gettysburg lawmaker who has also long championed an end to property taxes, called them “rent to the government for the land you own.”

“It’s easy to see why this antiquated tax is so despised in all corners of the commonwealth. More than 10,000 homes are seized annually in Pennsylvania and auctioned off for failure to pay the tax,” he warned in a statement.

Mastriano floated taxing Western Union-type remittances to foreign countries as well as endowments to already-wealthy colleges in Pennsylvania to fill the gap.

“It’s easy to see why this antiquated tax is so despised in all corners of the commonwealth. More than 10,000 homes are seized annually in Pennsylvania and auctioned off for failure to pay the tax,” he warned in a statement.

On the other end of I-95, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posed a similar question in his State of the State last week:

“Is the property yours or are you just renting from the government?”

“You buy a home, pay off a mortgage — and yet you still have to write a check to the government every year just to live on your own property?” DeSantis said, noting Florida home values have surged and escalating assessments created a “gusher of revenue” for municipalities.

“Taxpayers need relief,” he said, adding that pending legislation seeking “protections” for homeowners will have his support.

According to the Floridian Press, state Sen. Jonathan Martin of Fort Myers is one lawmaker heeding that call.

Martin’s new legislation calls for a property tax elimination framework to be subject to a study. The process would include examining the impacts on public services, changes in appeals to businesses to move to Florida, and other requirements.

On the second day of the legislative session last week, state Rep. Ryan Chamberlin announced “the beginning of the end of property taxes in the Free State of Florida.”