The Community Character Act (S.975) = Ripping Apart a Nation In the Back Room

http://www.americanpolicy.org/dw_commentaries/main.htm ^ | Tom DeWeese

[antidisestablishment]

They don't actually pass laws, they simply extort local governments:

The Community Character Act offers grants to communities that will pay up to 90% of the costs for localities to update their zoning - but only if they do it the way the federal government wants it done.

Of course, state and local governments are all too happy to play the whore. It is simply disgusting to see municipalities prostitute themselves for THEIR OWN MONEY! With REAL tax cuts, this BS would cease immediately.

[goody2shooz]

...do it -- right now. Or go to prison...

Not much of a carrot - the sport uniforms, that is - but one hell of a stick!

[Salvation]

legalize enforcement of sustainable development in every community in the nation.

Not over my dead body!

[Salvation]

The bill contains not a single mention of private-property rights protection.

And this is why!

[madfly]

BUMP

[ridensm]

The question we really need to ask is why wasn't this garbage abolished with the election of GW? But, of course, most folks around here would rather stick their heads in the sand than ask a question like that.