Posted on 11/07/2010 12:33:34 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
Americans can do whatever they decide to do. Witness the politiscape littered with the careers of Democrats deposed by determined Americans who have had enough big-government socialism forced upon them. The next challenge for the tea party – and other organizations – is local and state governments that are systematically implementing freedom-robbing policies in the name of comprehensive planning, smart growth, sustainable development and environmental protection.
If the word “freedom” is to have any meaning at all, it must mean that people are free to live wherever they choose, and free to use their property as they choose. For nearly 150 years, no one questioned this fundamental freedom. Then, in 1916, the Equitable Life Insurance Company built a 38-story building at 120 Broadway in lower Manhattan. The controversy about the building’s effect on the neighborhood resulted in the first zoning laws. In 1924, the Department of Commerce issued the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, which many states adopted. Zoning simply allowed elected officials to establish areas within a city that were reserved for industrial, residential, municipal, or recreational use. People were still free to build what they wanted within these zones.
Agenda 21 land use, from thenewalexandrialibrary.com By the 1970s, however, zoning fell out of favor, and the new fad became planning. The American Planning Association emerged in 1978 to advance the “science” of planning. Planning gave the government the power to control the use of land. Control of the use of any asset is the first evidence of ownership – but this new “science” of planning allowed government to disavow ownership of the land, continue to force the owner to pay taxes on the land, and still dictate to the owner how the land might be used, or to prohibit all uses whatever. [snip]
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You should ping Govorner Perry when you post an article about him.
No, wait. This is a conservative site. He wouldn’t be registered here.
Keep a sharp distinction between FEDERAL spending and regulating and State/local spending and regulating.
In theory, a State is free to implement as many stupid laws as its people decide they want ... and tax themselves as much as they want to pay for it.
This is essentially what States like California have done. And as far as other states are concerned, that should be fine if that’s what Californians decide to do. But the other 49 States should not be made to pay for it.
Sharp line.
That’s all I’m saying.
Rio Earth Summit Agenda 21 is the AntiConstitution. The UN can bite my shiny ass.
Ping
Please ping to get on or off Gulag Bound or Investigating Obama ping list.
Haha!
I bet you’re right.
Good point. State level spending is a major problem.
Bump!
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