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Schifference
08-01-2012, 06:24 AM
I believe change has to come from the local level. City taxes keep rising and funds are misappropriated and mismanaged to say the least. What is the best strategy to take over a city and replace the present system with a more cost efficient manager that could eliminate public workers and services like trash pick up. Put up for bid and privatize many of the services. Lower property taxes and stand up to the state. Phase out section 8 housing. Hire non union teachers. Eliminate busing to schools. Empower citizens to be responsible for themselves. Team up with surrounding towns/cities for services to minimize costs. How do we educate our neighbors and convince them that our mayors and leaders are totally mismanaging our tax dollars and restricting our liberty? It seems like the same bad politicians keep getting elected or when change happens it is the same politics with a different name and face. How do we change this? Take the free state project and bring it down to a city level. Have an entire city set it's own policy that stands against tyranny. All suggestions welcome.

tbone717
08-01-2012, 07:28 AM
I believe change has to come from the local level. City taxes keep rising and funds are misappropriated and mismanaged to say the least. What is the best strategy to take over a city and replace the present system with a more cost efficient manager that could eliminate public workers and services like trash pick up. Put up for bid and privatize many of the services. Lower property taxes and stand up to the state. Phase out section 8 housing. Hire non union teachers. Eliminate busing to schools. Empower citizens to be responsible for themselves. Team up with surrounding towns/cities for services to minimize costs. How do we educate our neighbors and convince them that our mayors and leaders are totally mismanaging our tax dollars and restricting our liberty? It seems like the same bad politicians keep getting elected or when change happens it is the same politics with a different name and face. How do we change this? Take the free state project and bring it down to a city level. Have an entire city set it's own policy that stands against tyranny. All suggestions welcome.

Run for office and network with other like minded people who will also run for office. Do some research and find out which local offices are up for grabs in 2013 and start there. Continue the process until each and every local government office is filled by someone who is an advocate for small government.

Now running for office will require you (and others like you) to build a network of support for your candidacy. So if you are not currently active and well known in your community you may need to take a year or two to build yourself a network of people that respect and admire you for the work you do in the community. There are a number of ways you can do this: coaching a little league team, volunteering for the PTA, being a member of a local civic organization, being an active member in a large church, etc. To put it simply if you do not know 20 or 30 people in your home town that would be willing to give you money and knock on doors to support your candidacy then you got a lot of work to do.

Czolgosz
08-01-2012, 07:52 AM
I believe change has to come from the local level. City taxes keep rising and funds are misappropriated and mismanaged to say the least. What is the best strategy to take over a city and replace the present system with a more cost efficient manager that could eliminate public workers and services like trash pick up. Put up for bid and privatize many of the services. Lower property taxes and stand up to the state. Phase out section 8 housing. Hire non union teachers. Eliminate busing to schools. Empower citizens to be responsible for themselves. Team up with surrounding towns/cities for services to minimize costs. How do we educate our neighbors and convince them that our mayors and leaders are totally mismanaging our tax dollars and restricting our liberty? It seems like the same bad politicians keep getting elected or when change happens it is the same politics with a different name and face. How do we change this? Take the free state project and bring it down to a city level. Have an entire city set it's own policy that stands against tyranny. All suggestions welcome.

FSP @ the town level would work.. a successful pilot would catch on in many other places.

ShaneEnochs
08-01-2012, 08:06 AM
It's hard to find enough like-minded, non-apathetic people in one town though.

Carehn
08-01-2012, 08:09 AM
Its and Awesome Idea. You will likely find that many taxes have limits on how low they can be but there by the state government. also things like unions and such are also controlled by state law in many cases.

Not to be a downer. Its and awesome idea that we should have all got behind 5 years ago. But just giving you a heads up. Many good ideas will be crushed by state and federal law.

tbone717
08-01-2012, 08:15 AM
It's hard to find enough like-minded, non-apathetic people in one town though.

Possibly, but that is why someone who is passionate about seeing their local community changed, needs to get out and be IN the community. Theorizing, talking about it, etc does nothing. For liberty activists to really change things, it requires getting out and meeting people, becoming involved.

I often say: Don't bitch and moan if your school taxes went up when you have never been to a school board meeting and do not know a single one of the persons that sit on your school board.

Elwar
08-01-2012, 08:19 AM
Check out Grafton, NH.

There is also this Georgia town that privatized everything.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/business/a-georgia-town-takes-the-peoples-business-private.html?pagewanted=all

angelatc
08-01-2012, 08:21 AM
There are at least two towns in Michigan that have RPR mayors. The next step would be to get RP Republicans to step up and take over the town councils.