Private property, as it relates to land, is a myth.
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Get an "allodial title", then you can tell the gov to take a hike.
I doubt that that is really possible though since the Fifth amendment to the US Constitution doesn't eliminate eminent domain it only limits it to public use. "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"
In my mind, private property means that an owner can do whatever they like with their property. If they want to destroy it, that is their business.
I prefer Thomas Paine's take on the subject:
"Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds."
The liberal bastion of New London, CT is wholly and completely responsible for the Supreme Court finding that private property may be confiscated by state and local governments for economic redevelopment by private developers. Not state development like roads and sewers......private economic development like Chili's or Exxon or Walmart or a skating rink. They can take your house and your land and put an Office Depot on it if they want to, and you must accept it.
Yes, this is the product of LIBERALISM, and you better like it because you have no choice in the matter.
The whole notion that any piece of the earth belongs to any individual or corporation based on a bunch of paper and ink is rather absurd when you really think about it.
The whole notion that any piece of the earth belongs to any individual or corporation based on a bunch of paper and ink is rather absurd when you really think about it.
You made my point in a much more succinct way than I did.
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