Ole Cowboy
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GOTCHA, i misread your post...............That is my point, only US citizens are legally allowed to vote. But when the amnesty crowd gets their DL they can register to vote. It is a hole that needs plugged.
GOTCHA, i misread your post...............That is my point, only US citizens are legally allowed to vote. But when the amnesty crowd gets their DL they can register to vote. It is a hole that needs plugged.
Among other things, this is why TX (Abbott) is suing the FG and why AZ (Brewer) may join the suit.Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer: Amnesty Costs 'Horrendous' for StatesEver hear of the following, “Taxation without Representation” or “Three-Fifths Compromise.” How can we tax a group of individuals without representation? How can the states that have large populations of these “half-citizens created by the current administration” ensure that the states are fairly represented based off of the increase of their population at the Federal level? Not only representation but receiving of Federal Funding for the increase of this tax burden at the state and local level?
You tax people equally through consumption based taxes. Then everyone, legal or not, is contributing to the services the state offers.
We need to abolish property and income taxes.
You tax people equally through consumption based taxes. Then everyone, legal or not, is contributing to the services the state offers.
We need to abolish property and income taxes.
101% concur and it will NEVER happen!
No offense, but I don't think Texas has enough guns to arm the militias that would require. The fixing, that is. Taking over would be the easy part of the equation.
LOL, REALLY who gave you that stupid piece of info, all it takes in Texas is a govt issued ID card and we are one of the TOUGHT states, many others require NOTHING other than filling out a piece of paper there and then voting. This is Obma's and Holders America, ANYONE CAN VOTE ANYTIME and as OFTEN as they want!
Everyone one is worried about keeping these persons who are ineligible to vote from voting. This is why so many states have taken up voter identification laws. This Executive Order will basically negate voter identification laws by providing acceptable forms of identification.
I forgot where I was living at the time but I got a tax bill on my home and there is no way my house would ever sell for that amount of money in the foreseeable future. When I questioned the logic it led nowhere, then I told them I would be out of the house in 24 hrs or less and give it to the county/city for appraised value. Of course that would never happen, but it was my last comment on a losing argument....Ha!
With regard to property taxes, politicians have managed to conveniently side step, and negate, the tax payer's ability to hold their feet to the fire by voting them out of office for increasing property taxes by increasing the actual "tax rate".
Instead, a quasi governmental entity (the property appraisal districts) effetively determines the amount of your property taxes by an often arbitrary and questionable "appraised value", historically boosting the value of the tax base, all the while being unaccountable to the tax payer, who is thrown a feeble bone by being granted the ability to protest ... but only to a point.
Around 1984 I filed suit against Harris County Appraisal District, and also naming all the taxing authorities/districts in Harris County. The argument was, in part, that the current system, based on the above, and an arguably imprecise "appraised value", was indeed, and in effect, "taxation without representation" - due to the fact that the property owner no longer had recourse to hold his elected representatives accountable, at the polls, for his property tax bill.
The system also arguably results in a State wide, regional inequity in cost for the same basic government provided services and benefits, paid for by the property owner's taxes.
I was forced to drop the suit after two years, not due to legal merit, but due to a tag team collusion between the defendents attorneys who took turns requesting continuances, always granted by the court. It thereby becoming apparent the suit would not be heard without considerably deeper pockets than I had.
What I find ironic are the years the likes of Dan Patrick spent on the radio campaigning for office by railing against Texas "property taxes", and with what results?
What the hell, at least some of us have attempted to put our money where our mouth is, as foolish an endeavor as that is/was under our legal system.
I agree. Consumption taxes are the only moral way to tax. Everything else is theft.I say go to a straight sales tax and drop ALL OTHER TAXES then and ONLY then will the American people know how much of their money goes to taxes at the city, county, state and federal level...and that is when folks will get voted out of office. Our real tax rate is around 50%...
Its the only tax system where you the tax payer have control over the amount of taxes you pay....do I buy a Rolex or a Timex, Marsaydees or a Ford. Now you are in the drivers seat...I agree. Consumption taxes are the only moral way to tax. Everything else is theft.
Right. That's what I mean by moral.Its the only tax system where you the tax payer have control over the amount of taxes you pay....do I buy a Rolex or a Timex, Marsaydees or a Ford. Now you are in the drivers seat...