GeneCosta

Gene Michael Costa III (born January 23, 1990) is a politician from Highland Village, Texas, a graphic designer, and the third-place finisher in the Highland Village 2008 mayoral race. Costa received media attention after he entered the race at the age of 18 against the incumbent Dianne Costa. Gene Costa and Dianne Costa are not related.

Political positions
Costa describes himself as a left-libertarian, classical conservative, liberal, socialist, and feminist. In his race for mayor he advocated lower property taxes, a friendlier city website, renewed efforts towards cleaning up public facilities, an easier initiative and recall process, and a restructuring of council districts. In addition to his original platform, Costa put forward ideas towards internet democracy and instant run-off voting, hoping to provide more control to the constituents. Outside of city politics, Costa has also commented on other issues that affect the United States and Texas governments. Costa supports gun rights, prison abolition, reducing the voting age to 16, granting suffrage rights to felons, replacing government-issued marriage contracts with civil unions between any two or more consenting parties, and ending the War on Drugs. Although he does not identify as a Georgist, Costa wants to replace most forms of taxation with ecotaxes, a land value tax, and public sources of revenue like the Hoover Dam.

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