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<blockquote data-quote="Jefpainthorse" data-source="post: 1391232" data-attributes="member: 11766"><p>Fact of the matter is.... some of the stuff we have about incorporation of cities,,, and other muninciple code issues was put in place (in 1907) to make us "different" from the existing states.</p><p></p><p>IMO... "cities" have way to much power and authority... and since OK has a very weak county government system ... well, 100 years after the fact... we have a whole lot of towns that should have folded up years ago.</p><p></p><p>The OK sales tax system is enough to make a small town cut it's own throat... discourage business and cause a slow and hateful death. Orlando and Muhall come to mind here in Central OK.</p><p></p><p>This Shamrock deal is not a one- off situation. A couple of other towns have "added" police in an effort to raise revenues from traffic enforcments-- while housing sits abondoned and meth cookers run rampant.</p><p></p><p>I hate to say it... but if a "city" cannot thrive it's not the worst thing in the world to tear up the charter and let things go. Texas, Kanasas and all the other rural mid western states have lot's of dots on a map today... that are towns that have been abandoned and given back to the county land base.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefpainthorse, post: 1391232, member: 11766"] Fact of the matter is.... some of the stuff we have about incorporation of cities,,, and other muninciple code issues was put in place (in 1907) to make us "different" from the existing states. IMO... "cities" have way to much power and authority... and since OK has a very weak county government system ... well, 100 years after the fact... we have a whole lot of towns that should have folded up years ago. The OK sales tax system is enough to make a small town cut it's own throat... discourage business and cause a slow and hateful death. Orlando and Muhall come to mind here in Central OK. This Shamrock deal is not a one- off situation. A couple of other towns have "added" police in an effort to raise revenues from traffic enforcments-- while housing sits abondoned and meth cookers run rampant. I hate to say it... but if a "city" cannot thrive it's not the worst thing in the world to tear up the charter and let things go. Texas, Kanasas and all the other rural mid western states have lot's of dots on a map today... that are towns that have been abandoned and given back to the county land base. [/QUOTE]
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