Posted on 09/06/2007 9:25:51 AM PDT by goldstategop
Thank you Doug.
Yup.
City of Concord.
COSTCO
Seizure of private land for development by a private entity on the paper-thin basis that there was a valid public interest in turning that property into a privately held economic engine that would provide jobs and stimulate commerce.
HELLO?! Isn't it mostly the local community that's spending the money at that new retail establishment?? So, isn't all that money actually going FROM the local community TO COSTCO Corporate?? All that stays "local" are the cumulative wages of local COSTCO employees, assorted City business fees, County property taxes, and whatever the County finally gets out of the sales tax revenues, and that's a WHOLE lot LESS than the gross sales dollars this community's pouring into the COSTCO tills.
And for that meager pittance the real estate holdings of a few were savaged by their local municipal government.
Socialists all, and damnable to a man.
It would be fascinating to know the effect the prospect of eminent domain has on local property value. My bet is that the property value will drop in the entire area because of the threat.
The landowners could then sue to have their property taxes reduced. That would spread the news that eminent domain can have a depressive effect on total revenue, and is not the bonanza its proponents have sold.
Thanks for the PING
For your consideration. Perhaps Tom can use one or more of these when debating the subject.
“It is not enough for a legislator to equalize possessions; he must aim at fixing an amount midway between extremes. But even if one were to fix a moderate amount for all, that would still be no use: for it is more necessary to equalize appetites than possessions.” - Aristotle, Politics, Bk. II. 334-23 B.C.
“I have truly no property in that which another can by right take from me when he pleases against my consent.” - John Locke, The True End of Civil Government. 1690.
“A man’s property and honor are the points upon which he will be most keenly sensitive.” - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses, Bk. III. 1517.
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, — but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!” - William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech on the Excise Bill.
“The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence – to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.” - Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics,” symposium, Madison, WI, February 9, 1961.
“Those of our day are cleverer, for they style themselves kings of France, of Spain, of England, and so forth. Thus, by controlling the land, they can be very sure of controlling its inhabitants.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract. 1762.
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.
- William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 1596.
“Men who have no property can injure one another only in their persons or reputations. But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, though he to whome the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. It is otherwise with injuries to property.” - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Bk.V, Ch.1, Pt.2, 1776.
I am not a “blue badge’r” (delegate) at the present time, but I’m Chair of the 55th A.D. Pubbie Central Comm. and an Assoc. Member. I’m going to the CRP Convention this weekend just to hear Tom on Sunday.
And yer preachin to th’ choir Revrind.
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Tom McClintock was the last best hope for fiscal responsibility in the state of California. Because of the fear that he was too Conservative (again the liberal news media’s trumpeting) we got a celebrity RINO instead. We now have the once great state of California in a downward spiral towards bankruptcy.
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