Has the Supreme Court Shown the Hand of Authoritarian Free Enterprise?

JimSinclair ^

[thoughtomator]

Yes I have a loony-left friend who gives me the same pap, that corporations control everything. When I spoke to him about this decision, to my semi-surprise he was outraged by it! Of course, when I pressed for details, it turned out that he didn't understand the first thing about the case - he was pretty much totally unconcerned about the Fifth Amendment and property rights, merely against the business that benefitted from it.

[inquest]

Who's more at fault - the one who allows something to happen, or the one who actually does it? And where is pressure more effectively applied - towards national officials who are unelected and serve for life, or towards local officials whose jobs are very much dependent on maintaining the good graces of their constituents?

Bonus question: Why do I even have to ask the above questions?

[Travis McGee]

If this continues, the Rule of Five may finally meet Rule 308.

[oblomov]

You won't win that way. If you don't pay your property tax, a tax lien gets put on the property by the county. The tax liens are auctioned off to investors. A statutory rate of return is paid to the investor by the property owner, if the owner wants to keep the property. After a certain amount of time, if the payments in arrears are not made the investor can file for the deed of the property.

Property tax liens are senior to every other lein on the property.