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What happened to the American city, in which there were no politicians, police and firefighters

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In Texas, in the small town of Vaughn Ormi, residents expelled professional politicians and tried to live freely without pressure from the state machine. The story of the experiment told the publication "Lenta.ru".

America's best city

“We got real grace - the opportunity to stage a democratic experiment,” Martinez de Var, who was elected on the wave of popular support by the first mayor of the newly formed city Von Ormi 2015 years ago, proudly told 7. According to him, people took power into their own hands and were able to establish a comfortable life.

Before 2008, Vaughn Ormi was an unincorporated territory and was governed by district authorities: conservative and freedom-loving locals were afraid that sooner or later they would be joined to San Antonio, a large city nearby. And this would mean an increase in taxes, bureaucratic confusion with a multitude of municipal regulations, permanent elections and tedious meetings of the city council.

But a third-year law student, de Var, offered the population a seemingly excellent way out of the situation. Vaughn Ormi was to become an independent “city of freedom”, organized as one large municipality. The benefit is obvious: a minimum of regulation, minimal intervention by the authorities in the affairs of local residents and their business, ridiculous taxes, which over time will abolish altogether.

Citizens, he assured de Var, will enjoy unprecedented freedom: no one will be able to prohibit launching fireworks, smoking in restaurants and letting children walk alone in the evenings. Businessmen, having learned about such a liberty, will be piled up in Von Ormi, and the city will flourish on sales taxes alone. De Vara even came up with a sounding slogan for his Von Ormi: "The most free city of Texas." In 2008, residents happily voted to found a new city, and yesterday's student took over as mayor.

In 2015, de Vara, extolling the “democratic experiment,” spoke of “true grace” that befell Vaughn Hormi. The city effectively employs police from 20 people - both hired professionals and volunteers. The fire service, entirely from volunteers, also successfully copes with its duties. A "building of the city council" migrated to the Internet, where visitors are received. On the scale of the tragedy behind this seemingly safe facade learned later.

It seems something went wrong

In 2017, a journalist The texas observer came to an interview with the successor of de Vary Trine Reyes. In the courtyard of the new governor, she saw three police cars that had not been turned on for several months. Nobody heard about fire protection for a long time, stray dogs ran through the streets, more than half of the city council’s deputies went under investigation, and a lonely secretary led the receptionist in a miserable van.

The city plunged into the abyss of chaos gradually. Having detained for the post of mayor, de Var first of all thought about attracting entrepreneurs to the city - they were lured by low taxes, as well as by the absence of many rules and regulations. Immediately a problem arose: it was difficult to open a business in a city in which there is no centralized sewage system.

The water services of neighboring San Antonio rolled out an estimate: for connecting to the sewer of the town in 1,3, thousands of people requested four to five million dollars. About such money in Von Ormi they never heard that de Var prohibited the issue of bonds of a loan: it was not supposedly that we founded the city of freedom in order to get into debt bondage now. Sewerage and no: the whole city uses a septic tank.

Attract a new galaxy of entrepreneurs did not work, but the macroeconomic situation helped de Vare. The world was at the height of the oil boom: oil workers were in the state, and the shops already operating along the federal highway I-35 (which were under the jurisdiction of Von Ormi) succeeded, bringing an impressive income to the treasury. In addition, the government initially collected property tax.

But oil prices collapsed, oil companies left Texas, and de Vary, in strict accordance with election promises, reduced and reduced real estate taxes. Financial receipts are rapidly melting.

There is such a party

Realizing the inevitability of the coming collapse, three of the five members of the city council - Jacqueline Gede, Verna Hernandez and Carmina Aguilar - made a coalition to put an end to the disastrous model of city government. They insisted on raising taxes. Opponents of de Vary simply could not collect a quorum (to recognize the meeting of the City Council as required, the presence of four of its members was required), and the real estate tax was completely abolished.

Then a “shadow” government was created. They formally deposed de Vars, electing Gede as interim mayor, dismissed the head of the police department and, as they wanted, announced the introduction of a real estate tax.

Upon learning of the conspiracy, de Var went to court. The decisions of the conspirators were canceled. The Texas Rangers intervened: a criminal case was opened against three women.

In the meantime, rumors of a unique mayor reached local Republican officials. De Vars called from all over the state and asked to share experiences. He "favored" four or five small towns. Senator Connie Burton even introduced a bill on “cities of freedom” with a minimum tax and legal burden. The committee did not pass the document further.

In May, 2015 de Vara left his post, persuading a new employee of the City Council Trina Reyes to run for him. The new and old mayors wanted at any price to throw out the trio of schismatics from the city council.

Hawking

De Vara, wanting to defeat the opposition, advised Reyes to change the principle of governing the city: instead of the mayor and five members of the city council, introduce a scheme from the mayor and two special commissioners. This is provided by law, but from the state's 1200 self-governing territories, only 27 is organized in this way. In November, 2015 voters supported this initiative: 129 people voted for it, against - 115. But this decision did not bring harmony to the government.

For more than a year, the mayor and special officers could not decide who would head the police department. Reyes appointed a man, Martinez and Kintaniya shot him and appointed another. Because of the powerlessness, the entire work of the law enforcement officers was falling apart: for example, a warehouse of material evidence was arranged not in the building of the plot, but in a trailer without any protection.

All this time, calls were handled by county dispatchers, a part of which used to be Von Ormi. In the end, the county sheriff told Reyes that due to the confusion in the city police service, the cooperation was stopped. Almost immediately, the Texas authorities deprived the city police of accreditation. The care of law enforcement went to the district authorities, and the police cars donated by them to Von Ormi put them on eternal parking in the yard of Reyes. The fire service also closed due to lack of funding.

In early May, 2017-th Reyes resigned. The mayor was elected Sally Martinez - the one who gave battle to the schismatics in the city council even under de Var. Her first task is to return to the city a functioning police department.

Reyes, however, believes that the city is doomed. “The only way to make Vaughn Ormi self-sufficient is to attract businessmen here. If we do not change the situation, we will have to take loans even for road repairs. If we do not attract entrepreneurs and do not organize the infrastructure, we have a cover, ”she is sure.

Local residents still do not intend to give up. “We worked really hard, but it became like George Orwell's Animal Farm. We are all equal, but some are more equal than others. We don't have competent people to lead, and there's no way in hell we can get someone from outside to come in and fix everything. We need to work ourselves,” said The texas observer local mechanic Michael Suarez.

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