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   -=> IB Joe wrote to Dr. What <=-   
      
    IJ> His problem is that this is done at the county level and not at the   
    IJ> State.   
      
   Interesting.  For me, it's done at the city level - as far as the tax bill.   
      
   But where does the authority to levy a property tax originate?   
      
   Remember: The Constitution does not grant citizens rights.  It grants the gov't   
   authority.  So there needs to be something somewhere granting the gov't (at any   
   level) the authority.   
      
    IJ> He's asked for the house to formulate a law or a constitutional   
    IJ> amendment   
    IJ>  and they are giving him grief... Everything they have put together   
    IJ> won't pass the threshold to advance it any further.   
      
   They are probably right about that.  The gov't doesn't like anything that   
   reduces their tax collection.   
      
    IJ> Ron claims that government spending has grown faster than the increase   
    IJ> in people moving into the state.   
      
   It wouldn't surprise me in the least.   
      
    IJ> Ron has started a new agency called Florida DOGE to find waste and   
    IJ> fraud.   
      
   Good for him!  We need that in Michigan and hopefully we'll get it after the   
   midterms and we get a new Gov.   
      
    IJ> Spending in Miami-Dade county increases 50% in five years... Only   
    IJ> ~65000 people have moved to Miami showing that Miami is spending ~13000   
    IJ> per person.  They have hired new staff... apparently they hired a sh!t   
    IJ> load of people ... most of those were bureaucrats.   
      
   Yup. That's the way it ususally goes.   
      
    IJ> The same corruption we learned about at the Federal level exists as you   
    IJ> work your way down the ladder.   
      
   That should surprise no one by now.   
      
      
   ... It is always darkest just before you turn on the lights.   
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