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500 Ger acre (Which Is often twice
is valued by county assessor ana
Tor $500 per acre by independent
districts This Is Illegal and should
ID stopped.
The legislature q nov ~ session.
Our tax laws are absolutely UNI
f0rceable and cannot any more "
enforced than prohibition. They ara
Ia Joke. I'M my humble opinion such
an organization - the only thing
which win saw our property OWL
erS from bankruptcy. It's orRaniza-
ton should be rushed.
Much Of our farm lands Is Eow-
inE lid ln willows. huiHnche and
Johnson grass and taxes are 20
principal ailmert. we must hE.M
money Tor school. state. county, ctty
and district government and op-
Grating expenses. More and more
OF our tax payers are going on
strike.
But there q no use TO try to pay
interest on all these bonds from
property tax ana We should not
allow school boards and othHr indA-
pendent districts 70 waste money
ike drunken sailors. aS we have
done ~ the past. When We cause
property to DC assessed at its full
value and no more. the attorneys
for bond holders viii break their
nerkS To Eet down here I'd refund
bonds on 4 sensible basis and assist
in working out some possible way
Of paying of.
ri am reliably informed that crA
insurance company which specializes
I'm writing policies for Dill poorest
and our middle class people. holds
s1500000 oar value on these bonds
of Cameron county and its political
subdivisions.
personally know vi poor woman
who s1ved $500 on a salary or SIS pct
month and invested 10 tn cre of these
almost worthless bonds. It seems ter
rible to RE N.Y. zee these poor reoDle
suffer who rurchared our bonds. tbs
proceeds cf which were used to
build our concrete roads. school
buildings. school ~cafe-erias and
Eymnasiums. while we continue tc
use them.
Old age pensions have been voted
hy the people OF Texas and the
taxes nece-S1ry 70 pay pensions VIII
be sa6dled on to the backs or the
property tax PAYERS. unless leagues.
as suggested above are formed 20
make and fight for IA sales tax
Our governor and county 1udze
have been quoted as having said
that sales tar Is 3 tax on poverty
Who is poorer than the average
Cameron county real estate owner,
whose property lS being rapidly con-
fi-cated Nv tax eaters2 Our bar as
ISOLATION should he drafted In the
interest or the common coed tn
draft a workable law for the wtp-
InE out cf delinquent taxes. most of
which cannot be collected NM
This suggested committee frunW
bar associations should also draft \
workable law after delinquent taxes
are disposed OF. & make i manda-
tory cn tx collector to sell all Prop
ertv 60 dsvs after taxes become de-
linulent for any amount M would
bring ~ cash. Money must be pro-
vided liz some way 20 operate or
There ~ 10 reason Why we should
not run our state and tits political
subdivision. as economically as Ne
hraska. which would save almost IN
per cent over our present method
Nest OF the bet paid salaried men
in this county live in rented houses
They have toe much sense 70 oTn
their own homes. They know thnt
old man taxes win get them.
some of the things herein adj
vccated nav not ~ entirely practi-
cal. but with more than 65 Oct cent
of our richest farms growing I'D into
jungle. Ii deserves the consideration
of cur citizens ard chambers of com
merce. A solution OF this tax qu@ah
ton IN the mrst important enc wuW
have. II formed. this or~FanizattrA
should be a br'rirR-r organization
and stay ont cf politics.
Most pnlit'-inns ar- very much
alike. and viii break their necks 70
exerute the orders uf a strong cr-
~zaniZaticr.
Respectfully submitted.
sam "A. Robertson
MA