In the name of “Growth Control:”
“The most controversial proposal and the one many rural property owners consider an illegal “taking” of their land would require that native vegetation be preserved on 65 percent of each parcel.
Landowners also are upset by provisions that would limit homebuilding and paving to 10 percent of the land and would increase setbacks on each side of fish-bearing streams to up to 165 feet and around wetlands to up to 300 feet.”
Essentially, the government owns your land now, it’s just kind enough to tolerate your presence.
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Was anyone deluded enough to think that environmental policies were not collectivist, if not communistic, in origin? Efforts to convince labor to collective, by and large, failed. The next economic input? Resources. Restrict resources and you have a de facto controlled economy (of course without having to call it such). What did we think was going to happen? Complaining about it now doesn’t do a whole lot of good. The offensive now lies with the enviro-collectivists. You get the government you deserve.
Was anyone here delusional enough to think that prior to this sort of thing the Government did *not* essentially own your property?
I suggest a thought experiment, what would have happened to “your” property 25, 50, 75, 100 years ago had you failed to pay your rent^H^H^H^H, I mean tax, thereon?
I don’t know that we’ve ever had personal ownership of real estate hereabouts…
Shirley Knott
Real Estate, is actually derived from the Spanish word “Royal estate” Meaning it’s owned by the Royalty (government)
Government owning your property has been an insidious blight on Americans for quite some time. Not sure when it happened.
Tracy
***Was anyone here delusional enough to think that prior to this sort of thing the Government did *not* essentially own your property?
I suggest a thought experiment, what would have happened to “your” property 25, 50, 75, 100 years ago had you failed to pay your rent^H^H^H^H, I mean tax, thereon?
I don’t know that we’ve ever had personal ownership of real estate hereabouts…***
While I agree with your view on taxes, there is a difference between a levy and then being left alone to quietly enjoy your land, and being told directly what you can and cannot do with it. There has always been eminent domain in place, too, but in that case the State pays you and takes possession of the land (yes, usually below market). There obviously has been a distinct shift from levies to provide basic co-operative services to taxes AND regulations based on cosmological metaphysical principles (e.g. environmentalism). There has been a huge upswing in the ‘regulatory’ side of Statism, in which environmentalism plays a huge role, especially for the Federal Government to become involved in what it essentially a local matter. The difference is a local band of tithe collectors is one thing, the iron grip from D.C. is another. If nothing else you could, and can, appeal the appropriateness of the tax levy before the local council, but when it’s quasi-religious dictates from bureaucrats a thousand miles away, it’s a lot tougher. But, again, I agree with you, and maybe if the fight had been taken up years ago as taxes sky-rocketed, then perhaps this strangling by regulation would not have occured.
Tracy is correct…
no individual owns real estate in the United States.
Even if you payoff your mortgage or pay cash for your property….you are still a renter.
If you don’t believe, stop paying your real estate taxes (rent).
The govt will be quick to demonstrate that you are a renter of the royal estate
and like any renter behind on the rent….the landlord will excercis its right to evict
Technically, the word for this is not “communism” but something equally as odious: “fascism” or “German Hindenberg Pattern Socialism.” Government allows psuedo title to property, but government is the defacto owner by virtue of dictatorial powers over the use of the property. This form of socialism allows the government to have a scapegoat divert blame or discontent on (namely, the private sector).
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