Some interesting things I have found on Property tax. First you have to look at a copy of the 1876 constitution for Colorado state because the only way to change the constitution is a convention and being that there has never been one since we became a state no changes could be made. Property tax is an ad valorem tax or add on tax that seems to apply to corporations. I find no where in the constitution where the peoples property can be taxed. If you tax the corps and the people we pay twice because the corps add that cost into the product and charge the customer( the people). from case law-

Commonwealth ex rel.,
Department of Justice v. A. Overholt & Co., Inc.;
Commonwealth ex rel., Appellant, v. Joseph S. Finch and Company

Nos. 31, 32, 33

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

331 Pa. 182; 200 A. 849 1938 Pa. LEXIS 686

May 9, 1938, Argued  
June 30, 1938In 26 R.C.L., page 37, sec. 21, it is stated: “Taxes are [***11]  either specific or ad valorem. Specific taxes are of a fixed amount by the head or number, or by some standard of weight or measurement and require no assessment other than a listing or classification of the subjects to be taxed. An ad valorem tax is a tax of a fixed proportion of the value of the property with respect to which the tax is assessed, and requires the intervention of assessors or appraisers to estimate the value of such property before the amount due from each taxpayer can be determined. . . .”

Have any of you had your property assessed and are you a corporation? Is the property tax a direct tax in disguise of an ad valorem tax? Just something to think about.

Rick

Cato Institute published an interesting editorial today in honor of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. What saved the starving settlers? Private property. Find out how at

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8236

The FDA released the following on April 27, indicating that it is detaining a lot of food imports from China. Melamine seems to be in a lot of the rice, corn, and wheat glutens coming out of China. I bet if you check the labels on your shelves, you’ll find gluten mentioned in most of the ingredient lists. But we have no way of knowing if the glutens in our house are contaminated. If it was this easy to contaminate U.S. food by accident, think about how easy it would be for terrorists to do it on purpose.

http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia9929.html

Last October, President Bush tucked into the defense budget bill a provision called the “Defense Authorization Act.” The provision weakens two very old and very vital restrictions on presidential power. It overrides “posse comitatus,” the post-Civil War doctrine that bans the military from engaging in law enforcement. Under the new provisions, notes the New York Times, “the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any ‘other condition.’”

That, my friends, is called a military dictatorship. Read the entire story at http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-12-num-9.html (scroll 1/4 down to the “Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News” section written by James Harris.)