Subj : Re: ABC Lie Briefs
To   : IB Joe
From : Ron L.
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 07:28:02

-=> 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.


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