Institute for Justice
Posted on 05/22/2018 6:08:44 AM PDT by servo1969
Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together. - H. Clinton
Resident: Is this legal?
Inspector: Is that a question? There’s a $2 asking-a-question tax.
Government is organized legalized theft anymore.
L
Who voted for these guys?
Don’t complain when their property taxes go up to make up for the lost revenue.
Jackson Township in New Jersey operates in the same illegal ways as this town in the article does.
Code enforcement officer, yes they are like “real cops”, however they can’t see a 2 story high mulch pile which was against code and a real fire danger, but will go nuclear on a homeowner with 1” too high grass or a basketball hoop in the front yard. Oh knoes! It all depends on who you know down in chity hall and of course, if you donate money to the politically corrupt.
Zoning is just a way to control the masses, the real estate by the politically corrupt without having to buy a single square foot of real estate.
“Who voted for these guys?”
Darn good question. A good reporter might have gone into a bit more background on what the government of that town is composed of.
“Who voted for these guys?”
Code enforcement, zoning officials are generally public employees with more power then anyone in town. They are not voted in, they are “hired” by your political elite.
St. Louis suburban towns are notorious for this crap. I guess the area is too close to Illinois and caught the graft.
Ann all black city government preying on a nearly all black population. How can that happen? </sarc>
You don’t think this crap happens in all white towns? It does...
Of course it does.
This kind of stuff used to happen in Asbury Park, NJ. May still happen for all I know. They threw a friend of mine in jail for having a broken railing on his front porch.
As the Queen said: “It took a village”. :-(
Wow. That’s your take? Low level government idiots using their little fiefdom to oppress people who can’t defend themselves and your concern is their property taxes?
You would think after years of being abused by code enforcement officers that the voters in the town would have replaced the legislature and executives who are elected with a group that would have changed the policies or re-written the laws to prevent this kind of harassment.
MJ
Local tyranny is real.
Thanks to the Constituion, it is not quite as bad as national tyranny, because you can move to another location.
But it can be pretty bad.
Try bucking the local elites in your area. It isn’t pretty.
Code enforcement is there to keep those people for being elected, they are the dirty of the dirty cops. They are there to protect the power elite and stomp down anyone who may or may not be a threat to that structure. The minute someone outside the “party” tries to run, they will be harassed with a million summons about their property.
And even if you do win, you will need others on the board as well who would want to repeal those laws, and you can’t fire the code enforcers, their unions will sue you and the town.
Who runs the town? It aint the people I tell you.
So where's the money going, hmmmm?
The fines may have been addressed, but not the spending problem.
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