. . . treat yourself to some of the best Southern barbecue at Peg Leg Porker in “The Gulch” area of town. My wife and I spend time in Nashville visiting family members and always walk down the street to Peg Leg for a good barbecue meal. It’s about a 15 minute walk from Music Row (Broadway). (The owner actually has a peg leg; hence the name). In addition to great grub, you will be supporting a good man, owner Cary Bringle, who wrote an open letter to Nashville’s Leftist, Harvard-educated Mayor, John Cooper, protesting the mayor’s proposal to increase property taxes by 32 percent. The letter says it all: Like so many other mayors, especially the Democrats, all he cares about is plundering the population as much as possible to continue feeding the bloated and useless government bureaucracy with its thousands of grossly-overpaid loafers and incompetents and their break-the-bank pensions,along with the city’s welfare parasites. These people are also the main reason why sleazeballs like this get elected as mayors of cities like Nashville. The tax-eaters, not the hard-working taxpayers, are his real constituency.
Such a tax increase will cause hordes of small businesses to either close down or move to more tax-friendly, nearby towns and states. They may have survived the shut-down-and-shut-up orders, but not this. The country music stars like Blake Shelton who have invested millions in clubs, bars, and restaurants on music row will be stuck with the plunder because of their heavy fixed investments that can not so easily move to the next town like a small barbecue restaurant can. There will be a huge tax-capitalization effect that will reduce the value of all commercial and residential property in the city as the newly-bloated property taxes become capitalized in asset prices. It will cause a “Baltimore effect” in the form of a flood of residents and businesses leaving the city while discouraging others from investing and relocating there.
A property tax moratorium is what Nashville needs at this point, along with a good recall election.
1:36 pm on April 30, 2020
