Government's war on poor people (spokesman, Brown, cost, biased)
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Sure, because someone's hoped-for house-flipping profit is more important than a person's right to use their own land to live in a home they can afford.
If you buy a home and/or land, you should be able to have full control over it. And only that.
Then don't buy in a neighborhood that has restrictions. Problem solved.
Millions of us buy into HOA neighborhoods BECAUSE the have a HOA.
Because it is more important. Because someone's flipped home is property THEY OWN. The other is something they wish to have have, but do NOT OWN.
You do understand that "property" is not just "land", right? It means anything that someone owns. Like money. Or food. Or clothing. Or a car. What if I decided that your car equals "snobbery" and I should be able to use it 2 days a week, because I can't afford to buy one for myself?
I consider minimum lot size requirements a morally illegitimate hindrance to ownership. Funny how the morally illegitimate Constitution protects you from government taking property you OWN while it allows with impunity government hindrances to ownership which prevent others from owning.
If you own a Lexus, that doesn't stop me from owning a Yugo. But when you own a McMansion, that usually coincides with a government prohibition on the housing equivalent of a Yugo.
... the poor have no voice in government, no power.
True, in a democracy.
False, in a republican form.
• In America, if you have endowed rights, you’re under the republican form of government.
• If instead of endowed rights, you have "constitutional rights" (privileges), and mandatory civic duties, you’re under the constitutionally limited indirect democracy that serves the people in the republican form of government - by your consent.
• If you have socialist obligations, you’ve volunteered into the socialist democratic form, via FICA - again, by your consent.
Among those endowed rights are life, liberty and absolute ownership (aka "private property" which is not synonymous with "real estate").
" PERSONAL LIBERTY, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or NATURAL Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property...and is regarded as inalienable."
- - - 16 Corpus Juris Secundum, Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987...
Note: the fundamental or natural rights are endowments of our Creator, and not subject to the government, nor a vote. However, if one consents . . . all bets are off.
This is not unusual. Most government regulations keep poor people poor. This time is housing. But the poor have no voice in government, no power. So it's easy for Big Government to regulate them into poverty.
True, in a democracy.
False, in a republican form.
• In America, if you have endowed rights, you’re under the republican form of government.
• If instead of endowed rights, you have "constitutional rights" (privileges), and mandatory civic duties, you’re under the constitutionally limited indirect democracy that serves the people in the republican form of government - by your consent.
• If you have socialist obligations, you’ve volunteered into the socialist democratic form, via FICA - again, by your consent.
Among those endowed rights are life, liberty and absolute ownership (aka "private property" which is not synonymous with "real estate").
" PERSONAL LIBERTY, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or NATURAL Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property...and is regarded as inalienable."
- - - 16 Corpus Juris Secundum, Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987...
Note: the fundamental or natural rights are endowments of our Creator, and not subject to the government, nor a vote. However, if one consents . . . all bets are off.
What exactly does "by your consent" or "consent of the governed" even mean?
The Framers imposed upon landless citizens a Constitution in which they had no representation. How exactly did the landless consent to be governed?
Voters in many states are voting in favor of increased minimum wages and its even being passed in some "red states"
Voters in many states are voting in favor of increased minimum wages, because politicians and voters refuse to pursue the proper policy of allowing the private sector to deliver the supply and variety of housing that minimum wage advocates need most.
IOW, increasing minimum wages is a flawed response to the shortage of affordable housing, because NIMBYs keep the proper response of allowing the private sector to Build, Baby, Build off the table.
"Your voting residence is within your State of legal residence or domicile. It is the true, fixed address that you consider your permanent home and where you had a physical presence. Your State of legal residence is used for State income tax purposes, and determines eligibility to vote for federal and State elections and qualification for in-state tuition rates."
Sure, because someone's hoped-for house-flipping profit is more important than a person's right to use their own land to live in a home they can afford.
If you buy a home and/or land, you should be able to have full control over it. And only that.
I live on an oceanfront lot. I can only build on 25% of it (footprint regulation). Do you disagree with that restriction?
You do understand that "property" is not just "land", right? It means anything that someone owns. Like money. Or food. Or clothing. Or a car. What if I decided that your car equals "snobbery" and I should be able to use it 2 days a week, because I can't afford to buy one for myself?
This exact issue is before the NC Courts right now.
NC claims the public has the right to use privately owned beach property, free of charge. That, of course benefits non-oceanfront rental property owners and the entire tourism industry, but doesn't compensate the landowner for that use. Meanwhile, the landowner is taxed on the land that the public uses and from which others profit. And the landowner is legally liable for injuries, etc., that occur on their land.
IIRC - In most New England states the public has the right to use any part of the beach below the mean High Tide Line. This was originally to allow shellfish collecting by anyone but has evolved to allow the public to walk from one part of the beach to another.
I once owned a piece of rural land and wanted to move my dilapidated house trailer to it so I could build my own house. The local zoning officer told me I could not do that because I might never build the house and the trailer was not worth very much so the town taxes would not be enough. While this annoyed the hell out of me. It worked out because after a few years I sold the lot for more then 5 times what I paid for it. That was the down payment on my current residence.
I still believe that a land owner should be able to pretty well do whatever they want on their own land. If I want to buy a few beautiful acres and live in a prefab shack that is my choice. I could care less what it does to my neighbors property values. That is their problem, not mine.
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