The Gates Four community is still fighting annexation by Fayetteville. The community has been fighting annexation since 2004, but the City of Fayetteville keeps returning. Why, you may ask? The Gates Four community is a financially well-established community, with high dollar homes, a golf course, and private security. Bigger, more expensive homes mean more property tax revenue. The City of Fayetteville's motivation in this matter is a greedy desire to collect more taxes.

The Gates Four community residents pay for their own utilities, trash collections, etc. and even have settled the problem of policing by having a private security force. The community is interesting similar to what we a Libertarian society would look like. We should support the Gates Four community by writing the press, submitting amicus curiae briefs on their behalf and by engaging local politicians to leave them alone.

Read the Observer article HERE.