This used to be the responsibility of the private
sector and it worked very well. Business
people invested their own money to launch their businesses. They controlled the process and took the
risks. If they failed, they paid for
their failure out of their own pocket. These Business people did everything
they could to succeed. They got minimum interference and had sole
responsibility. When government overreach infected the private sector,
corruption and dysfunction flourished.
It is extremely expensive to start a business or
develop a property in the US. There are applications, fees, inspections,
approvals and fines for noncompliance based on government laws and ordinances.
We have failed to keep government in its box. The
federal government spends most of its revenue on unconstitutional programs that
are far beyond its “enumerated powers”. It is lawless and out of control. State
and local governments followed the federal example and failed to limit its
powers and its footprint. The end result
is that government at all levels has failed to perform its most basic
priorities.
These priorities include the construction, expansion
and maintenance of roads, bridges, highways, water and sewer systems. This is critical infrastructure needed in
dense cities. In rural areas and exurbs,
we should be able to handle sewage through septic tank systems and get our
water from wells. We should also be able
to establish gardens and grow out own food.
If our property is large enough, we should be able to raise animals including
chickens for eggs and goats for milk and cheese.
Critical infrastructure is required to allow
businesses and residents to function. We
can get our other services from utilities and pay for our other expenses in the
private sector. This includes transportation, education, healthcare, food
purchases and trash collection.
The function of government is to provide a
nonintrusive environment for living and doing business. The objective is to
obey the US Constitution (as written) and allow the private sector to function.
The purpose of zoning and property ordinances is to avoid civil suits between
property owners, so that nobody starts raising pigs or dumping trash in our
subdivisions. It should not be to impose a government initiated central planning
scheme on private property owners.
I started this Tea Party in 2011 after attending a
“visioning session” to control the design of my local strip mall. I was shocked
that the city was intruding on private commercial property owners. This was
sanctioned by the city council and conducted by a consulting firm to implement
UN Agenda 21 in my city. The “visioning
session” was rigged and used the “Delphi technique” to secure rigged data for
voter input. This is still going on and the Georgia legislature has no
intention to repeal the laws that dictate UN Agenda 21 implementation and all
the abuse it causes.
Local government in Georgia is abusing private
property rights in the name of “economic development” to increase their
property tax revenues. This government overreach has distorted all traditional
development incentives. Business people now make a dive for the front end of a
bad idea and bail as quickly as they can, before the bad idea becomes obvious.
Developers and builders take the money and run.
Local government in Georgia is abusing taxpayers
with costs that have quadrupled since 2010. They need to impose performance
Bonds on vendors and return to taking the lowest bid. We are sure that bribes are being paid and
corruption is wide-spread.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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