Protecting Texas Property
In a world moving more and more rapidly towards globalization, perhaps we’d do well to review exactly what insures freedom. What is it that makes one free? What sets a free man apart from one enslaved?
Do we still hold these truths to be self evident, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed?”
Surely, if it is government’s job to secure life, liberty and happiness, it should not be in the business of depriving citizens of those very things. Man works and economies flourish only to the degree that one is able to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Even before our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “the enterprising of every country knew that coming to America insured them the acquisition and free possession of property.” It is ownership that fuels enterprise. We’ll work hard if we get to enjoy what we work for.
We’ve lost sight of that here in Texas. We’ve surrendered private property ownership to the ever-growing state – we lease our property in the form of ever increasing rents known as property taxes. We’ve forgotten that ownership is an essential element of freedom; that property taxed is not owned at all. We must cherish and protect all property ownership. Jefferson was correct in his writing to James Madison “small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
If Texans are to remain free from the ever-encroaching state, Big Brother, we must own our property, on that we must not compromise and we must not surrender. In order to protect against subservience to that growing state, we must eliminate property tax in Texas and we must protect against abusive eminent domain seizures. We must be free to own that for which we labor. Texas can lead and Texas will lead…when we protect that which keeps men free.
Debra Medina
Republican Candidate for Governor of Texas
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