Category Archives: Private Property

North Dakota to Consider Abolishing Property Tax

Nov 30, 2011 by Debra Medina | Posted in: Blog, Private Property

We are seeing reports today that activists in North Dakota have been successful in collecting enough signatures to ballot a measure to eliminate property tax in their state.  According to Charlene Nelson, “North Dakota citizens may abolish property taxes, allowing them more control over government spending.  Nearly 30,000 signatures were collected to place the people’s initiative on the ballot in June, 2012 that would constitutionally abolish all property taxes in North Dakota.”  Read the full … Continue reading →

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Funding Government Post Property Tax

Jul 19, 2011 by Rick Cunningham | Posted in: Blog, Private Property

When We Texans asked for commentary about finding the right balance between taxes on business and taxes on individuals, we should have expected it to stimulate a good debate.  But it has been especially gratifying to see how insightful, varied and enthusiastic the responses have been. Several common themes seem to have emerged from supporters.  First, they don’t like big government.  They don’t like the way it wastes the hard-earned money they pay in taxes, … Continue reading →

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Sine Die, Hallelujah!

Jul 1, 2011 by Debra Medina | Posted in: Blog, Private Property, State Sovereignty

The 82nd Texas Legislature has adjourned sine die, “indefinitely,” 1631, from L., lit. “without (fixed) day.”1 And the post-mortem examinations are well under way.  Since most of those are geared to persuade the reader to a particular pre-determined conclusion, it might be advisable to refer to them only as a means of developing your own objective assessment of your legislator’s performance.  Our earlier post offering a word of caution when reviewing those scorecards can be … Continue reading →

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Texans’ Tax Dollars to Fund Fortune 500 Company Commercials

Jun 20, 2011 by Debra Medina | Posted in: Blog, Private Property, State Sovereignty

Don’t be deceived by all the conservative talk coming out of Austin, the political royal class continues to write law to protect their political cronies and use the Texas taxpayer dollar to give money to those same special interests.  The Austin American Statesman did a Politifact Check this weekend on State Rep. David Simpson’s observation that “the state budget lawmakers sent to Gov. Rick Perry spends money in the wrong places — such as on … Continue reading →

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Philosophy of Liberty – Plunder

Jun 15, 2011 by Janise Cookston | Posted in: Blog, Private Property

Video courtesy of The Foundation for a Free Society

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Will Governor Protect 4th Amendment Rights?

Jun 13, 2011 by Debra Medina | Posted in: Blog, Private Property, State Sovereignty

When the Senate tucked tail and ran in the face of the Feds’ scare tactics, we decided to put some calls in to Texas households to see what voters thought about the TSA bill. It should come as no surprise that Texans aren’t really fond of the TSA fondling travelers without a reason.  In fact, out of the more than 11,000 people that answered our call, almost 70% said that they agreed with the proposed … Continue reading →

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