From the LaPorte, Indiana Herald Argus 8 May 2006 regarding the city annexing two proposed areas:
“The city obviously needs to grow. That’s the American way,” said committee member Russ Klosinski, vice president of LaPorte Savings Bank. “It brings more jobs, revenue and houses. The city hasn’t grown. This is why the city has been in a financial crunch.”
The American way is government forcing itself on county residents that would rather the city stay where it is? The American way is government encroaching on your land and subjecting you to an additional set of codes and ordinances? The American way is government trying to increase the tax base to kickstart the economy, repeating past failures, and ignoring the near-unbearable tax burdens it has already placed on the city's residents and small businesses? No. That's not the American way, and Mr. Klosinski should know better than that. How about getting government out of the way so the city's populace can fix the problems the government has created?
Monday, May 08, 2006
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The larger a city becomes the more taxes it needs to fund the additional needs. According to the what the govt. says, the city of Miami should be tax free. It sure as hell isn't.
These forced annexations are popping up all over Indiana. It's about as un-American as it gets. Consider: If Mexico tried to forcibly annex part of Arizona, what single word would you use to describe the action?
War.
The greedy, rapacious appetite of government officials for tax dollars to spend is at its peak right now, often with Republicans leading the tax-and-spend charge. We need Libertarians at all levels of government to return it to the vision of the Founding Fathers and to the Constitution.
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