And that's not the government...how exactly?
Big state government has shoved this down our throats whether we want it or not.
No, individual rights forced this down your throat. If you didn't want him to have the land so badly, why didn't you pool your resources as a community and buy the land?
You are a poster child for what I was talking about: You are perfectly willing to let Government do something that free markets and communities should do.
Luckily, the strip joint entrepeneur ran out of money.
Wow, free market worked. Who knew?
"If you didn't want him to have the land so badly, why didn't you pool your resources as a community and buy the land?"
No one knew he bought it until after the fact. Once the deal became known about, all kinds of people offered to buy it from him. But he was determined to open a strip joint - and one of his reasons was to give the low income girls around here a good job.
And come to think of it, the decisions made on the state level were JUDICIAL! Not eve state legislature.
The fact that the vast majority of citizens around here did not want the strip joint means nothing to you. So who's the Big Government here? I guess you like the suits in the state capital forcing decisions on us little people. We're just country folk who pay taxes. We're not suited up elites, we should just accept what our betters decide for us and shut up.