I HATE big government control, but Jeff is absolutely correct.

TX also has oil industry revenues in lieu of a personal income tax to fund government operations.However, when you compare the actual property tax paid on the median priced property in CA to the tax paid on the median priced property in TX, I bet the TX property tax will be significantly lower than the amount paid in CA.

No, I'm not an elitist, but on the other hand I'm not a lazy riff-raff deadbeat being supported by the government (hardworking taxpayers) either.

Mike, it is very simple:EVERYTHING our government does is intended to benefit government and those that work in it.

They are not created with the intent of selling them off to government-sponsored entities like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or FHA.

I'm going to contact my state and local government to see what their process is.

Nowhere in my post did I mention any party affiliation of the tens of thousands of young Romanian revolutionaries that stormed the government and loyalist buildings, scaring Ceausescu and his wife onto that helicopter.

It appears that it will threaten the solvency of our Federal Government.

Plenty of demand for those that are on government assistance, but hard to make the numbers work.  

There is a plan in Flint to shrink the city by bulldozing areas and returning them to nature and the federal government is looking at the idea for other US cities.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.htmlI have no objection to the idea myself.