Short-term-rental fee illegal, lawsuit says

Class-action challenge claims city’s levy is actually a tax

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/19/short-term-rental-fee-illegal-lawsuit-says/

ENCINITAS — A landlord has filed a class-action lawsuit against Encinitas seeking to overturn the city’s annual fee on short-term rentals, calling it an illegal tax.

The effort is led by Edward Teyssier, a local libertarian leader and attorney who helped landlords in San Diego overturn a fee charged to businesses for processing taxes. Encinitas, a popular vacation spot, has many short-term-rental properties, defined as private homes rented for 30 days or less, usually to out-of-towners wanting to enjoy the coast.

The owners of short-term-rental properties already pay a 10 percent hotel tax. The permit fee for each unit is $150 per year, and is in addition to the tax.

Teyssier said the fee is actually another tax. Therefore, it should have been approved by a publ  Read more »

Wes Bertrand will speak about his book, Complete Liberty: The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America. Wes received a BBA in management (minor in philosophy), BS in psychology, and MA in counseling psychology during the '90s. He encountered the writings of Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden in '93, and that same year embraced market anarchism instead of their contradictory political model of "laissez-faire capitalism." Wes' first book The Psychology Of Liberty (download from here: http://www.logicallea...) published in 2000, was a philosophical and psychological outgrowth of that process. Complete Liberty: The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America was published in 2007 (download from http://www.completeli...) which presents a focused look at our political situation and how it can be resolved.

While Wes has been a member of the NH Free State Project since 2005 (even moved there in '06 and then moved back to SD in '07), he believes its realization remains difficult due to most members not being voluntaryist/agorist (instead seeking the counterproductive political means). He believes root-striking freedom activism can be done wherever one resides; visit http://www.meetup.com... for more information about this process in sunny San Diego.

Currently, Wes works with Kevin Koskella on http://www.healthymin..., their weight loss, nutrition, and mental health and physical fitness site. His personal counseling site is http://www.happinessc....

The Event is FREE! Food checks are all separate – Thank you Elijah’s!
Time: 6:30 Order and eat (optional)
7:15 Presentation begins
8:30 Prizes & wrap up

 

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Statists

 

On Monday, February 22nd at 7pm, Cafe Libertalia hosted the first debate on this topic of high-level of control over people vs. absolutely zero government and thus a completely free market economy.

This was not the typical political debate that argued over what to do with the stolen loot.  Instead it focused on that basic question -- whether or not 'government' is necessary, appropriate or legitimate.

The two sides are from what is generally considered the fringes of  Read more »

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      FOURTH DISTRICT: CASE OF WEISBLAT  v.  CITY OF SAN DIEGO IS REVERSED AND REMANDED. 

        August 18, 2009, SAN DIEGO -  In a stunning blow to the City of San Diego, and especially the City Attorney's Office, the Fourth District Court of Appeals today unanimously ruled that the City of San Diego may not charge a fee to collect a tax. 
     
      In January of 2005 the City of San Diego started charging a $25 "fee" to collect the business tax from every business and rental property owner in the city.   Shortly thereafter Sidney Weisblat and his neighbor, Kenneth Ledgerwood -- two landlords who objected to this fee -- sued to stop this practice. 
       
      "Landlords have already been burdened with the Rental Tax.It was ridiculous to also have to pay a FEE just to have the City cash my tax check!" said Weisblat.  Read more »

Time to Think Outside the Library Box

San Diego County has a number of public library systems open to the general public.  Two operations are quite large - the San Diego County and San Diego City libraries.  In addition, the cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Oceanside, Coronado, Escondido and National City each have their own library systems. Read more »

Even though there are no radio stations per se in San Diego that are libertarian, except for MAYBE Roger Hedgecock, there are some around the country that you can stream.

One of which is an AM station in Pheonix, http://www.libertariansolution.com/