by Robby Soave. Donald Trump is no friend to private property owners. Vowing to recapture some of the enthusiasm his campaign has lost over the past few weeks, Sen. Rand Paul said he will focus on property issues and eminent domain abuse in order to make the case that Donald Trump is out of step with conservative Republican primary voters. ... MORE
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Rand Paul To Attack Trump Over Eminent Domain Abuse
by Robby Soave. Donald Trump is no friend to private property owners. Vowing to recapture some of the enthusiasm his campaign has lost over the past few weeks, Sen. Rand Paul said he will focus on property issues and eminent domain abuse in order to make the case that Donald Trump is out of step with conservative Republican primary voters. ... MOREUnited States Drops In Overall Freedom Ranking -- Again
by Casey Harper. Freedom in US is headed toward the sunset. A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. Last year, the U.S. was ranked 17th, but a steady decline of economic freedom and “rule of law” has dropped the level ... MORELawmakers Should Protect Property Rights
What a conservative Congress should do. Property rights are a fundamental value of political conservatives, and the new conservative majorities in Congress and the state Legislature have early opportunities to enhance those rights. Those rights most often have become controversial in eminent domain cases, where governments ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: How Government Steals From Citizens
From civil asset forfeiture to eminent domain. “Government,” as Barney Frank and other progressives are fond of saying, “is just another word for things we choose to do together.” Like rob people blind. Sometimes the together-doing is highway robbery in the most
literal sense — as when police departments seize cash from
motorists ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: When Eminent Domain Is Just Theft
Say you buy a car. Drive it around for five years, get plenty of use out of it. Then one day you decide you paid way too much. You really should have paid half what you did. Or even less. So you go back to the dealership and say the car is worth less now, and you want a refund. Think you’d get it? Precisely. Yet this is just the kind of stunt ... MORE101 Reasons To Move To New Hampshire
Freedom lives in the Granite State. Among the many advantages of moving to New Hampshire, these 101 reasons are at the top. New Hampshire has no general sales tax. New Hampshire has no general personal income tax. Dividends and interest are taxed at only 5%. New Hampshire state law prohibits the use of eminent domain for ... MORERails To Trails: A Train Wreck For Property Owners
by Kathryn Ciano. Rails
to Trails is a government program to convert abandoned railroad
tracks to recreational trails. Sounds great, except that the tracks
run over private property, and the private landowners haven’t been
paid for this permanent land grab. A case before the Supreme Court
this term,
Brandt v. United States, demonstrates the program’s ... MORECarl M. Cannon: The Asset-Forfeiture Racket
Don't steal, the government hates competition. Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray summoned the political fortitude this past week to veto a “living wage” measure passed by the D.C. Council. The bill, with the Orwellian title, the Larger Retailer Accountability Act, would have raised the minimum wage for Wal-Mart employees – but only ... MORECalifornia City Tramples Property, Contract Rights
by Bob Barr. It’s easy to make fun of California, the “Land of Fruits and Nuts,” with its history of “flower power” and its “fragrance free zones”; where environmental whackos are exalted, and Second Amendment supporters demonized. What is not humorous, however, are efforts by officials in the Golden State to use the power of ... MORECalifornia Lawmakers Continue To Erode Property Rights
by Steven Greenhut. California’s 1940s-era urban-renewal policy, “redevelopment,” is coming back — only less so in some ways but more so in others. California’s redevelopment law was designed to revive inner-city neighborhoods by giving city planners extra powers to invest tax dollars and direct development decisions in areas that were .... MORE
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