Future Plans
Keep the Tax Rate Down
Low-Income/Low-Cost Medical
Keep the Tax Rate Down
Keeping local tax rates low is crucial because it attracts businesses and residents, stimulates economic growth, creates jobs, and boosts community prosperity by allowing individuals and companies to retain more of their earnings for investment and spending. Cliff has kept taxes low in the ways a county commissioner can—by supporting and
Keeping local tax rates low is crucial because it attracts businesses and residents, stimulates economic growth, creates jobs, and boosts community prosperity by allowing individuals and companies to retain more of their earnings for investment and spending. Cliff has kept taxes low in the ways a county commissioner can—by supporting and voting for property tax rate reductions (or holding rates steady amid rising property values), ensuring the county collects less revenue per dollar of valuation than it could under no-new-revenue guidelines, and prioritizing fiscal restraint to deliver savings to taxpayers while maintaining essential services.
Community Growth
Low-Income/Low-Cost Medical
Keep the Tax Rate Down
Community growth that truly benefits rural areas emphasizes higher development standards for safer, more durable homes and infrastructure while fueling small business expansion through low barriers to entry, creating lasting jobs, increasing local wealth, and building vibrant, resilient towns that attract families and entrepreneurs alike.
Community growth that truly benefits rural areas emphasizes higher development standards for safer, more durable homes and infrastructure while fueling small business expansion through low barriers to entry, creating lasting jobs, increasing local wealth, and building vibrant, resilient towns that attract families and entrepreneurs alike. Combatting predatory developers and scam "green energy" projects keeps Van Zandt County a place where you can build your Rural Dream without the threat of large corporations bringing in unwanted industrial sprawl, destroying farmland, or imposing unreliable, low-value projects that benefit outsiders at the expense of our local communities and way of life.
Low-Income/Low-Cost Medical
Low-Income/Low-Cost Medical
Low-Income/Low-Cost Medical
Access to low-cost medical care is vital because it enables timely preventive services, early detection and treatment of illnesses, reduces medical debt and financial hardship, improves overall community health outcomes, and lowers reliance on expensive emergency care—ultimately fostering healthier, more productive populations.
In line wit
Access to low-cost medical care is vital because it enables timely preventive services, early detection and treatment of illnesses, reduces medical debt and financial hardship, improves overall community health outcomes, and lowers reliance on expensive emergency care—ultimately fostering healthier, more productive populations.
In line with this principle, Cliff is actively discussing the county's support for establishing a low-income medical clinic in Canton, which would provide affordable, accessible healthcare to residents in need and help address these critical gaps in the community.