My consistent interest in the work of composer Richard Wagner stems not only from the music, but also from the antithesis of great art and reprehensible personality, as well as Wagner’s profound understanding of the cruelty and emptiness and threat to human existence of contemporary governments. His music is one thing, but his writings, though […]
Hendrik Slegtenhorst Surviving Government in a small town
Local Government and Property Taxes
As municipalities do not have access to income or consumption taxes, and as senior governments are reluctant to grant municipalities access to them, local governments generally are obliged to use the real property tax as their major source of revenue. The property tax is determined by multiplying the assessed value of a property by the […]