The battle at the national level is getting a lot more attention. But it's probably happening at local levels all over the country. It's the battle between those who think an economy is better off without government meddling and those who think the government should micromanage the economy by favoring some businesses over others. Hayek vs. Keynes on a home town level.
This issue comes to light as the morning paper explains that the Midland, Texas, city council plans to reward the owner of the local mall with a $250,000 grant of money collected from tax payers through the sales tax.
The theory is that the mall shops collected the money, therefore it would be a "pay back to the mall sales tax revenue it generates." If they were sincere about a "pay back," the money would be paid back to the people who were forced to cough it up in the first place. And, by the way, they wouldn't be planning to raise local taxes again.
It must be an intoxicating experience to be an elected lawmaker with loads of money to dole out. It must be like playing Santa Clause but with other people's money.
Think that is bad? Look at this: UN Agenda 21 happening in local communities and steamrolling across the country.
CITIZENS OF ARLINGTON TX TAKE ON CITY COUNCIL
http://youtu.be/qlACtblBrzg
How Your Community is Implementing UN Agenda 21
(a crash course)http://youtu.be/CEHWsdimVO4
If this isn't corrected, all of the other issues won't matter.
Changing The Conversation
http://youtu.be/vLF_i8CbwHQ
Posted by: Cheryl | July 28, 2011 at 05:53 PM