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Related: About this forumSan Antonio suburb of Von Ormy goes ‘zero tax, zero fee’ to recruit business, provide services
VON ORMY As motorists speed past this tiny community along Interstate 35, they might not realize they have just passed the Freest Little City in Texas, as Mayor Art Martinez de Vara sometimes calls it.
The mayor shies away from political labels. But there is a libertarian tinge to a zero tax, zero fee goal as the best way to bring economic development to this poor but proud city that incorporated on the southwest side of San Antonio just six years ago.
I dont consider myself a politician, he said. I just dont like taxes and regulations.
Its an attitude that prompted community leaders to cut the towns property tax rate in half while almost tripling its sales tax revenue with the help of fast-food restaurants and truck stops lured to Von Ormys I-35 frontage. City officials hope to recruit larger enterprises once they have installed a sewer system and to eliminate the property tax altogether.
More at http://www.mystatesman.com/news/business/san-antonio-suburb-of-von-ormy-goes-zero-tax-zero-/nfJdT/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch (subscription required).
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(21,115 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)A Toledo TV station this morning had a couple of Libertarians spewing their views of the world. One of them is fighting in the courts to have his name on the gubernatorial ballot. The other is a Libertarian version of a Young Republican.
They both were preaching that corporate, income and inheritance taxes should be eliminated. I wonder how they plan to fund the state?
The gubernatorial candidate is a former business owner whose businesses have all tanked. Guess you've got to blame the gubmint and high taxes when that happens.
You have to wonder about these Libertarians who run for government offices. They'll expect to be paid if they get elected, but they preach the "eliminate all taxes" ruse. Well then, where will be money to pay you come from?
The Young Republican clone beamed when he talked about other states that have no income tax. But they're usually tourist trap states in the south and they can do that because they hose the tourists with exorbitant taxes on food, lodging and other things.