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Old 12-31-2021, 07:24 AM
 
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Counties in Texas do not have the power to tax earnings. The sewers and such are provided by the incorporated cities or the MUD's. Harris County doesn't provide water or sewer services.
Sorry, I was kidding.
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I know full well that unincorporated areas of Texas cannot even make a leash law without the consent of the legislature. And that counties in Texas have bo ordinance making ability. That's why we had to knock on doors to ask each homeowner to donate 25 bucks to support volunteer EMTs and buy a used ambulance back in the 70s. It took 25+ years to create a special purpose district for funding emergency services in unincorporated Texas.

It's just a damn shame that people move here from all over the world, see houses and shopping centers and think it's a city.

Too bad an area that would be the 5th largest city in the country, if it could incorporate, has no government but commissioner's court, a HOA and MUD.
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Old 12-31-2021, 10:15 AM
 
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Counties in Texas do not have the power to tax earnings. The sewers and such are provided by the incorporated cities or the MUD's. Harris County doesn't provide water or sewer services.
I had not had my 3rd coffee. The brain was not fully engaged.

Sorry, the city earnings tax would be from the city of Houston. It would be placed on people who work in Houston, think income tax, and live in another jurisdiction. It is legal in a couple other states I have lived because we paid it.
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Old 12-31-2021, 11:27 AM
 
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I had not had my 3rd coffee. The brain was not fully engaged.

Sorry, the city earnings tax would be from the city of Houston. It would be placed on people who work in Houston, think income tax, and live in another jurisdiction. It is legal in a couple other states I have lived because we paid it.
I know NYC, Pittsburgh, and other cities do that. Houston cannot, as it's not one of the powers delegated to cities by the State legislature. The special purpose annexation sof most of teh commercial areas in Harris County take the place of the earnings tax.
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Old 12-31-2021, 12:31 PM
 
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I know NYC, Pittsburgh, and other cities do that. Houston cannot, as it's not one of the powers delegated to cities by the State legislature. The special purpose annexation sof most of teh commercial areas in Harris County take the place of the earnings tax.
Are you in a MUD that splits the City of Houston sales tax revenue? The other benefit to the CoH is those areas will never be able to incorporate.

Sitting here close to 290@1960 I could be in Council District A on my morning walk. That map indicates the annexed areas and ETJ are almost to Montgomery county.
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Old 12-31-2021, 02:55 PM
 
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Are you in a MUD that splits the City of Houston sales tax revenue? The other benefit to the CoH is those areas will never be able to incorporate.

Sitting here close to 290@1960 I could be in Council District A on my morning walk. That map indicates the annexed areas and ETJ are almost to Montgomery county.
I live inside the Loop, but pay attention to lots of political and governance stuff.
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Old 12-31-2021, 04:43 PM
 
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Funny,
The small government people of The Woodlands have a big sign saying
"FIREWORKS PROHIBITED IN THE WOODLANDS"
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Old 01-05-2022, 07:47 AM
 
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Funny,
The small government people of The Woodlands have a big sign saying
"FIREWORKS PROHIBITED IN THE WOODLANDS"

It is possible to not want drunk morons with fireworks to set your houses on fire and still support small govt. Those things are not necessarily related....but good try, anyways. LOL



I would also love to hear the benefits of more and bigger govt, because today...sorry...I just do not see it.
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Old 01-05-2022, 08:48 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Ok, how about you live wherever you want in this city...just don't be a douche about it?


"I think XXX is too white...blah blah.....great...then DONT LIVE THERE.
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Let me try to explain this way.

I can tell youre obviously white and as such youre going to be able to be around significant numbers of people who look like you anywhere you go. Youll find people who share your culture and your values in nice neighborhoods all across the land.

I, for example, am Lebanese Arab and my wife is Thai. We dont find lots of people who look like us most places in America. Were limited to large cities and a few smaller ones. Nobody likes to feel like a token and while a diverse set of friends is ideal, most people dont like to be the only one that looks like them in a place. I cant imagine too many white people with means would, for example, move to PG County in Maryland because even though its well off they would be the only one that looks like them in their circle.

People can talk about "I dont see color" all day long but thats a lie no matter who is saying it. We all do. One of the reasons I like Houston is because, in addition to finding other Lebanese to be friends with, there are people from all over the world here. I could also be happy in the Detroit area because thats ground zero for my culture, but my wife would be less happy because there is very little East Asian culture there. Contrarily she might be happy in Seattle but they dont have a lot of my culture.

When we talk about the Woodlands, it is like Baytown. Both are suburbs of Houston but they function on their own without much interaction with Houston. That means their local culture is more independent of Houston. Its not like Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, or Cypress where the local culture is very engrained with Houston. The Woodlands has its own thing going on. Houston celebrates diversity while the Woodlands is the antithesis of it. If youre white and conservative and want to be around just that, I cant think of a better place to be. But if youre not, then its not.
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Old 01-05-2022, 09:37 AM
 
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It is possible to not want drunk morons with fireworks to set your houses on fire and still support small govt. Those things are not necessarily related....but good try, anyways. LOL

I would also love to hear the benefits of more and bigger govt, because today...sorry...I just do not see it.
Without big evil government ... Texas would still have only one lake like it did for 1000s of years
until big government decided to build dams all over Texas to provide reliable source of water to everybody in the state.
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Old 01-05-2022, 10:23 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Funny,
The small government people of The Woodlands have a big sign saying
"FIREWORKS PROHIBITED IN THE WOODLANDS"
Probably as dumb as Sugar Land installing red light cameras around their moneymaker First Colony Mall (especially on all sides of the Hwy 6 and U.S. 59 intersection) a decade ago. No wonder the mall is now dead! Glad to see the red light camera moneygrab is now illegal in Texas.

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It is possible to not want drunk morons with fireworks to set your houses on fire and still support small govt.
I've seen clearly sober people celebrating with fireworks in unincorporated areas around Houston.

The small government areas tend to be the most totalitarian (but bastions of white privilege = code-word: "freedom"). Fascist Sugar Land and Woodlands did not get rid of their cameras until the Texas Lege made them illegal a few years ago. Houston had an anti-camera movement a decade ago, while there was barely a peep in the suburbs.
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