AN APPOINTED BOARD: TAXATION WITHOUT DIRECT REPRESENTATION

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Some boards having oversight of taxing districts are composed of members who are elected by the public and are accountable to those who elected them.  A good example would be the Texas Southmost College Board of Trustees.  Subject to regular elections, those board members are accountable to the taxpayers, and may be voted out of office if their actions are inimical to the will of the people.  In effect,  the ballot box provides a safeguard which may be used to apply the brakes to college policies and procedures deemed to be inappropriate by the electorate.


In the case of the proposed Cameron County Healthcare District, the governing body of the taxing district would be appointed by elected officials, such as county and city commissioners.  Such a structure of governance erects a double-layer of political obfuscation, thus making it more difficult for citizen input to be effective.  The reality is that, once in place, the healthcare district would be next to impossible to undo.  And, totally out of sync with American ideals, it would result in taxation without direct representation.

Finally, it does not take a super-sleuth to figure out who will be occupying the board seats which will determine those who will compose the bureaucracy charged with running the healthcare district.  It is all too obvious, isn't it?  Along with taxation without direct representation, we will also see multi-layers of compadrismo like we've never seen before.

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