Cities are in a major jam. The lege just messed with property taxes, which created problems for Florida cities and counties, and now they aren’t going to get taxes paid on some property and all property will have to be reassessed down. The hard times are going to get harder. NPR seems to be the only ones interested.

I hadn’t thought of that, Jack. That is a major problem, because most of those people are in tiny towns. The people of Point Robinson may apply for annexation by Canada.

Another interesting impact that isn’t being discussed – probably because it doesn’t affect a great many people – is the impact on some U.S. citizens living along the Canadian border. I have a number of friends and in-laws who live in small border towns and routinely cross into Canada for most of their needs because it is much farther to a full-service U.S. community. They’ve seen a 30-some percent increase in their costs at the same time as the fuel to make that longer drive to a larger U.S. town has more than doubled…