Looking for a solution to high local property taxes? Ungovernment your town.
Going out of business appeals to small places like Cooper, where only 145 people live. With no jobs and an aging population, the tax base is shrinking even though the costs of government keep rising. “It just got to be more than we could handle,” says Sue Dorsey. Dorsey says that’s why the 26 residents of Centerville let the state take over their affairs – everything from education to snow removal. “There was more to do and less people that wanted to do it,” says Dorsey. Centerville not only locked the door to city hall, it sold it for $3,500.
8 out of 9 small towns in Maine that have done this have seen a drop in property taxes.
Hat tip – Dr.Joyner
Gee, I wish I could ungovernment the U.S.!
Can I ungovern Ottawa? Most of us supported the forced merger of a dozen or so smaller municipalities into a mega-city recently, because it was promised to be more efficient and have lower taxes. What a goddamn lie. If you’ll excuse my French, which is not good enough to get a job in the new bilingual bureaucratic monstrosity that governs the nation’s capital.
This city, this province and this country are so stitched up, enthralled and enslaved by leftist politicians that I hate to think about how far down we will go before we scrape bottom and start to rise up again.