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This article has nothing to do with the incidence of high blood pressure among commuters, this article is an opening gun in the campaign on the left to destroy our federal system of cities, counties and states.

It is the plan of the Obama administration to do away with governmental jurisdictions being delineated by states and cities within states and to redraw our maps both geographically and governmentally so that the inner-city can suck taxes from the suburbs and achieve wealth distribution through this transformation. Do not think about New York, think Detroit.

More, the left's ambitions do not stop merely with taking over your property taxes and funneling them into the inner-city but those ambitions extend to controlling the school system, the road system, the tolls on those roads, and, through the zoning boards, to actually, literally control where you will be permitted to live. Do not think about easing highway congestion, think about how Obamacare federalized the health delivery system, the health insurance business, and inserted federal control over your doctor's decisions.

Same game new playground.

These are not merely my paranoid ravings, these are explicit ambitions of this administration reduced to writing and made public.

“It is the plan of the Obama administration to do away with governmental jurisdictions being delineated by states and cities within states and to redraw our maps both geographically and governmentally so that the inner-city can suck taxes from the suburbs and achieve wealth distribution through this transformation. “

I lived outside the city limits. We had our own volunteer local fire department down the road. The property tax was $700/years. The county forced new development to make themselves part of the city. My area got surrounded and annexed. The taxes went to $1600/year and the local fire house was shut down. Now fire trucks had to come from the city 20 miles distant. It was purely wealth redistribution.

The city owns the electric utility. They have the highest rates in the northern part of Florida. Five hundred dollars/ month is not unusual for an average household. The city has on numerous occasions attempted political moves to seize the local cooperative which has the lowest rates in the state. (I’m not sure how the cooperative has held on so far.) But it’s all about wealth redistribution.