Greene County Presiding Commissioner Debate Report

Making the Libertarian Case

My mission in this debate was to try to lay out the libertarian case for privatizing things and lowering taxes. We need to decentralize the money and I tried to explain in a variety of ways the problems with not. We are still suffering from the centralized planning of the last decisions made by our county government.

The Jamestown development project is a clear case on why the presiding commissioners should not be trying to economically plan our area. The people decide this with their economic transactions. The commissioners should simply be trying to devise better ways to protect your property.

During the debate we often took on the issue of taxes and I was the only candidate expressly for lowering taxes. The rest are for keeping taxes the same or raising them if need be.

I repeated twice at one point, "Good leaders protect their constituents from new taxes."

I also was the only candidate who was expressly for cutting the budget and I stated a few times the commissioners should make the Household Median Income of the County... around $41,000 dollars instead of the 70,000 the commissioners get now.

The Springfield News-Leader wrote me up quite nicely. They were fair and simply repeated my case. I appreciate their honesty and sticking it out for such a long process. It is a great read. http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2014/04/29/greene-co-commissioner-candidates-debate-tonight/8475577/