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31 Jul 2006 12:43:57 PM |
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Re: Churches Putting Town Out of Business |
On 31 Jul 2006 10:41:27 -0700, "666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Stafford, population 19,227, is the largest city in Texas without a
property tax, and it depends on sales taxes and business fees for
revenue. Nonprofits have been attracted by its rapid growth and minimal
deed restrictions. "It's thrown everything out of balance, plus
providing zero revenue. Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and
schools," City Councilman Cecil Willis said.
Gee you create a regulatory free/minimalist environment and you get
thrashed. And they seem surprised?
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I am human; nothing in humanity is alien to me.
Terence
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| Title: Re: Churches Putting Town Out of Business |
31 Jul 2006 01:15:40 PM |
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On 31 Jul 2006 10:41:27 -0700, "666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Stafford, population 19,227, is the largest city in Texas without a
property tax, and it depends on sales taxes and business fees for
revenue. Nonprofits have been attracted by its rapid growth and minimal
deed restrictions. "It's thrown everything out of balance, plus
providing zero revenue. Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and
schools," City Councilman Cecil Willis said.
Gee you create a regulatory free/minimalist environment and you get
thrashed. And they seem surprised?
I wouldn't take the LA Times all that seriously - since Stafford has a *lot*
of retail conglomerations along the US 59 Southwest Freeway, and more is going
up along FM 1092 (Murphy Road), where there's more than a little empty space
to accommodate it. They'll have more when the upgrading of US 90A (South
Main) into a mini-freeway from 59 most of the way into Houston is completed in
the next year or so. They're not raking in the bucks from two auto
dealerships, The Fountains at Stafford, and Wal-Mart? I find that a little
hard to believe...and I'd love to know where the Times droid put the town's
center. The old downtown is southeast of about 90% of the city, and almost as
much of the development.
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Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Milwaukee 4, Houston 2 (May 9)
NEXT GAME: Saturday, October 7 vs. TBA, 7:35
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Churches Putting Town Out of Business |
31 Jul 2006 01:29:57 PM |
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On 31 Jul 2006 13:15:40 -0500, The Chief Instigator <patrick@io.com>
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retrogrouch@comcast.net writes:
On 31 Jul 2006 10:41:27 -0700, "666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Stafford, population 19,227, is the largest city in Texas without a
property tax, and it depends on sales taxes and business fees for
revenue. Nonprofits have been attracted by its rapid growth and minimal
deed restrictions. "It's thrown everything out of balance, plus
providing zero revenue. Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and
schools," City Councilman Cecil Willis said.
Gee you create a regulatory free/minimalist environment and you get
thrashed. And they seem surprised?
I wouldn't take the LA Times all that seriously - since Stafford has a *lot*
of retail conglomerations along the US 59 Southwest Freeway, and more is going
up along FM 1092 (Murphy Road), where there's more than a little empty space
to accommodate it. They'll have more when the upgrading of US 90A (South
Main) into a mini-freeway from 59 most of the way into Houston is completed in
the next year or so. They're not raking in the bucks from two auto
dealerships, The Fountains at Stafford, and Wal-Mart? I find that a little
hard to believe...and I'd love to know where the Times droid put the town's
center. The old downtown is southeast of about 90% of the city, and almost as
much of the development.
The question does arise though how much of this is actually in the
incorporated part of town and so paying taxes to the town.
________________
I am human; nothing in humanity is alien to me.
Terence
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| User: "The Chief Instigator" |
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| Title: Re: Churches Putting Town Out of Business |
31 Jul 2006 05:58:51 PM |
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On 31 Jul 2006 13:15:40 -0500, The Chief Instigator <patrick@io.com>
wrote:
writes:
On 31 Jul 2006 10:41:27 -0700, "666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Stafford, population 19,227, is the largest city in Texas without a
property tax, and it depends on sales taxes and business fees for
revenue. Nonprofits have been attracted by its rapid growth and minimal
deed restrictions. "It's thrown everything out of balance, plus
providing zero revenue. Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and
schools," City Councilman Cecil Willis said.
Gee you create a regulatory free/minimalist environment and you get
thrashed. And they seem surprised?
I wouldn't take the LA Times all that seriously - since Stafford has a *lot*
of retail conglomerations along the US 59 Southwest Freeway, and more is
going up along FM 1092 (Murphy Road), where there's more than a little empty
space to accommodate it. They'll have more when the upgrading of US 90A
(South Main) into a mini-freeway from 59 most of the way into Houston is
completed in the next year or so. They're not raking in the bucks from two
auto dealerships, The Fountains at Stafford, and Wal-Mart? I find that a
little hard to believe...and I'd love to know where the Times droid put the
town's center. The old downtown is southeast of about 90% of the city, and
almost as much of the development.
The question does arise though how much of this is actually in the
incorporated part of town and so paying taxes to the town.
True...but within the city limits, there are two auto dealerships, Texas
Instruments, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, The Fountains at Stafford conglomeration,
various restaurants along 59, Murphy, and the eastbound side of 90A (HPRR
tracks follow the westbound side), and newer residential areas in the
northwestern square mile or so, with '70s-vintage homes west of Dulles
Road/South Kirkwood (basically, the northeast part of the Sugar Creek
development that's within the Stafford limits; the rest is in Sugar Land), a
UPS regional center on Stafford Road, and an old '50s subdivision between
Stafford Road and West Airport that contains the city's only land in Harris
County, and an office park between the 59 retail strip, South Kirkwood, and
90A that stretches eastward almost all the way to Murphy and abuts TI to the north. If there are 51 church properties in the town, a number of them must
be sitting empty, or else they're hiding in the office parks. I don't
remember seeing that many different churches in my travels through there.
--
Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Milwaukee 4, Houston 2 (May 9)
NEXT GAME: Saturday, October 7 vs. TBA, 7:35
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| User: "" |
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31 Jul 2006 01:29:00 PM |
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wrote:
On 31 Jul 2006 10:41:27 -0700, "666" <son0fam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Stafford, population 19,227, is the largest city in Texas without a
property tax, and it depends on sales taxes and business fees for
revenue. Nonprofits have been attracted by its rapid growth and minimal
deed restrictions. "It's thrown everything out of balance, plus
providing zero revenue. Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and
schools," City Councilman Cecil Willis said.
Gee you create a regulatory free/minimalist environment and you get
thrashed. And they seem surprised?
________________
I am human; nothing in humanity is alien to me.
Terence
all liberals and progressives need to remember this important rule
when dealing with unstable types like libertarians and
conservatrives:the modern conservative/libertarian are always outraged
at the results of their own policies.
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