a Washington Examiner editorial. Margaret Thatcher, when she was British Prime Minister, used a simple formula to describe the economic freedoms due to a properly free people: "A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master." This was, in her view, "the British inheritance." ... MORE
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Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Taxpayers And Property Rights Win In Rams Move To LA
by Raymond J Nhan. Eminent domain and public funded statia. Recent news of the Los Angeles Rams is a win-win-win for the NFL and
taxpayers in Los Angeles and St. Louis. Though citizens of the Gateway
City may feel differently right now, they just avoided a massive waste
of taxpayer funds and a series of eminent domain abuses. And the ... MORE
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eminent domain,
football,
government,
politics,
private,
property rights,
subsidies,
taxpayer
It’s Far Past Time To Take Back Our Nation
by David J. D'Addabbo. Obama and his global agenda allies are using the media as a propaganda machine to create the Illusion that stricter gun control will somehow protect the people. This is of course a lie proven over and over again by unarmed citizens getting slaughtered! Governments are unlawfully regulating away all of our rights, under color of ... MORE
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citizens,
EPA,
government,
gun rights,
individual liberty,
land grab,
property rights,
resistance
Absurdly Harsh Penalties Sparked Oregon Rancher Protest
by Jacob Sullum. As Ed Krayewski noted yesterday, the armed men who are occupying an office building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon broke off from a demonstration protesting the sentences received by two ranchers, 73-year-old Dwight Hammond and his 46-year-old son Steven, who in 2001 and 2006 set fires on their own ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Unappreciated Tax On The Poor
High risk neighborhoods are taxing themselves. A few years ago, BET had a commentary titled "Where Are the Grocery Stores in Black Neighborhoods?" One wonders whether anyone thinks that the absence of supermarkets in predominantly black neighborhoods means that white merchants do not like dollars coming out of black hands. ... MORE
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business,
commerce,
crime,
discrimination,
incentives,
politics,
poverty,
profit,
property rights
DOJ Suspends Asset Forfeiture Equitable Sharing
by Mikayla Hellwich. Police currently take more of citizens’ assets than thieves do. The Department of Justice released a memorandum addressed to local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies Monday to announce that the equitable sharing program for asset forfeiture funds has been temporarily suspended due to financial considerations. ... MORE
Charles P. Pierce: That Whole "License To Steal" Thing
Civil forfeiture is a civil shitshow. There was a very interesting statistic that popped earlier this month as
regards criminals and criminal justice in the United States. According to economist Martin Armstrong, in
2014, the police seized through civil forfeiture more of the property
of their fellow citizens than was stolen by all the burglars in the ... MORE
Economics Is About Scarcity, Property, and Relationships
by Michael J. McKay. The other day I was having coffee with a new friend, a retired businessman who had customized luxury cars in California. I mentioned I had recently retired from owning an investment firm and had studied economics for many years, especially Austrian economics. Like so many people, he said, “I really don't understand economics ... MORE
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decisions,
economics,
knowledge,
logic,
property rights,
reason,
scarcity,
self-interest,
trade
Joe Carter: How Property Rights Saved The Pilgrims
Socialism nearly killed them. This week school children across the country will be hearing the tale of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. You probably heard a similar story when you were in a kid that went something like this: The Pilgrims sailed over to America from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower. During their first winter in the new ... MORE
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collectivism,
economics,
food,
production,
property rights,
self-interest,
shortage,
socialism
Jason Snead: Why Police In Many States Can Seize Your Property Without Proving You’re Guilty Of A Crime
Politicians use cops to legally hold up citizens. Civil asset forfeiture is a growing problem throughout the nation,
driven by a profit incentive that encourages property seizures by law
enforcement authorities even under dubious circumstances. That is the inescapable conclusion of the second iteration of Policing for Profit: ... MORE
The Cops Now Steal More Property Than The Burglars
The incentives of civil asset forfeiture. For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an insidious power known as Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF). The 1980’s-era laws were designed to drain resources from powerful ... MORE
When Will They Ever Learn? The New Student Rebellion
by Walter Donway. When trespassers invade private property and refuse to leave until their “demands” are met, you call the police to have them evicted by all necessary means and arrested. That, of course, is what that Ivy League citadel of reasoned discourse, Princeton University should do, and do immediately, with the students who this week ... MORE
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censorship,
college,
force,
politics,
property rights,
protest,
protesters,
schools,
students
Supreme Court Considers Boundaries For Legalized Theft
by Doug Mataconis. How much of your stuff can government without conviction of a crime? Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Luis v. United States, a case that deals with the issue of whether, and when, the government can seize assets prior to conviction when those assets are being used to pay for a Defendant’s criminal defense: ... MORE
John Stossel: My Trump Problem
Using government as a weapon. Sometimes I like Donald Trump. He makes me laugh when he mocks reporters' stupid questions. Sometimes he's smart. When Maryland's lefty governor said a tax on rich people would "raise revenue," Trump told me why it wouldn't. The taxpayers would just flee: "I know these people! They're international people! ... MORE
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Donald Trump,
eminent domain,
GOP,
government,
power,
principles,
property rights,
Republican
Daren Bakst and Katie Tubb: Lawmakers Need To Kill EPA’s And Army Corps’ Water Rule: Property Rights Are At Stake
Regulators gone wild. Congress appears to be stepping up to the plate to kill the Environmental Protection Agency’s and Army Corps of Engineers’ water rule (known as the “waters of the United States” or WOTUS rule). Lawmakers just need to bring it home by sending legislation to the president. In doing so, Congress will be protecting ... MORE
Eminent Domain: A Million Homes Taken Since Kelo
by Mark A. Calabria, CATO. It has been just over a decade since the Supreme Court decided in Kelo v. New London that local governments can take private property by eminent domain under a very broad reading of “public use”. Cato held an event earlier this year to examine the legal impact of Kelo, featuring remarks from George Mason Law ... MORE
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