"It is enough for you and your pals that since I don't like what urban sprawl has been doing to our land that therefore I must be a liberal or worse."
No, it's not about your dislike of urban sprawl, it's your exagerration of sprawl.
I insure that "sprawl" doesn't affect me because I buy property around me; thus, I have no sprawl.
My point is that you can save forests and farmland with buying it. That's what I do. I own forestland that nobody will ever build on as long as I'm alive.
I don't want government passing laws that says you can't use your private property. I prefer that individuals, using the marketplace, stop "sprawl."
Then again, I would never stop an individual property owner from building on his property. Government, through regulation, would. That's wrong.
Your responses have been too moribund for me to take you as a serious defender of private property rights. I could be wrong; maybe you beat up Fish & Wildlife bureaucrats as a hobby on Friday nights.
Naw, I don't think so.
Anyway, my offer stands - when you get your farm let me know - I'll buy your first chicken.
I gave up on the farm idea, because I realized that no farm I could afford would give me real privacy from the neighbors.
I hope you're right about your property but a word of caution:
You must actively try to keep development away. Merely thinking that your own place is big enough won't do. When you are surrounded by housing tracts the developers will want your land and they will get the government to help them. Your taxes will get so high that you'll have to sell, or they will harass you till you give up.
A short while back I give a ride to a hitchhiker, and he told me how the sheriff had beat down his door because his place didn't meet the standards of the town which had gotten snooty.
"I insure that "sprawl" doesn't affect me because I buy property around me; thus, I have no sprawl.
My point is that you can save forests and farmland with buying it. That's what I do. I own forestland that nobody will ever build on as long as I'm alive."
From your comments it appears that you live where the land is still reasonably priced. On Long Island it is impossible to buy forests and farmland to save it unless you are a billionaire, and even then, there is very little left to save.