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To: JCEccles
Some states already have stringent constitutional prohibitions or legislation in place that would prevent what happened in Connecticut. If your state isn't such a state, start pushing your state representatives HARD to make it one.

The problem with that strategy is that the state has a vested interest in maintaining the opposite case: that it indeed have this power to maximize tax revenues. My own feeling is that the states will fight any such citizen action, including their own courts. For instance, the State of South Carolina and Jasper Country are even now squabbling among themselves as to who will garner the most gelt from taking land owned by Georgia in South Carolina on the Savannah.

Can you imagine either the state or the county willingly giving up that power, especially after today's wideranging decision?

I remember the Proposition 13 fight in California; it took enormous energy on the part of many people to push it through. Can you imagine that much energy being expended, that many people emulating Howard Jarvis and then-Governor Reagan these days in every state capital?

958 posted on 06/23/2005 3:33:17 PM PDT by snowsislander
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To: snowsislander
My own feeling is that the states will fight any such citizen action, including their own courts.

No question. Powerful interests will not want to see this power curtailed. But citizens in other states have fought the battle and won.

Another option would be start pushing hard for a federal constitutional amendment to close off this loophole.

All of these efforts are worthy efforts. Citizens need to care enough to get involved in a REAL WAY. I see more conservatives than liberals getting involved because of this, and I see some liberals becoming conservatives.

Much good of a kind and quality not desired by liberals may come of this.

990 posted on 06/23/2005 4:45:13 PM PDT by JCEccles
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