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Why not just enforce existing laws?
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The local muckity-mucks have to write new laws to justify their being muckity-mucks. Enforcing the laws already written might mean having to increase the police force and raise taxes, which will annoy the taxpayers, and might come back to haunt Mr(s). Muckity-muck come election time.
Seizing property means reselling the property and raising money. The only person who loses out is the person whose property is seized. Of course the police department starts to emphasize the the officers the value to the municipality of enforcing the seizure ordinances more vigorously than run of the mill ordinances.
It all works beautifully for everyone, except the schmuck who gets the "seizure tax bill". Until, of course, YOU turn out to be the latest schmuck caught in some seizure scam.
The number of people on Free Republic who support this Barbra Streisand is an indicator of how close the lefties are to total victory in this country.