All Posts Tagged With: "property taxes"
Wildfires and State-Worship
Whenever wars or other tragedies rage, so too rage those who worship at the altar of government. In his World War I-era essay, “War Is the Health of the State,” writer Randolph Bourne argued that during peaceful times people concern themselves mostly with their own business, but that during war everything changes. “To most Americans [...]
1Jan2008 | Steven Greenhut | 1 comment | ContinuedInvoluntary Municipal Annexation: The Ugly Truth
Suppose you received a letter informing you that the nearby city had decided to annex your property. Beginning the next year, you learn, your property taxes would double and no additional government services would be provided. If that happened, you may be sure that 1) your property had been assessed at a high value, and [...]
1Sep2007 | Barbara R. Hunter | 29 comments | ContinuedEurope Meets America: Property Rights in the New World
When Europeans arrived in the Americas and began to claim the rich lands they encountered, they brought with them an equally rich European tradition of property law and justifications for establishing property rights. Today these are often mistakenly lumped together into the law of conquest, sometimes in an attempt to cast modern titles into doubt [...]
1Jan2007 | Andrew P. Morriss | 2 comments | ContinuedAre Highways Subsidized?
I have always loved trains. I am an ardent cyclist, and I never particularly liked automobiles. So I always took it for granted that the reason most Americans drive and passenger trains have nearly disappeared is that our highways are unfairly subsidized. I felt particularly incensed that the Interstate Highway System, which took business from [...]
1Nov2006 | Randal OToole | 8 comments | ContinuedA Home with a View . . . and a Higher Property Tax
Gardner Goldsmith is a radio talk-show host in New Hampshire. It took me years to understand what my father meant when, on being confronted by a disagreement in taste or talking about the price of a product, he would suddenly speak in Latin: De gustibus non est disputandum. For someone who took four years of [...]
1Sep2006 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | ContinuedCentral Planning Comes to Main Street
Steven Greenhut (sgreenhut@ocregister.com) is senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif. He is author of Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain. A casual reader could be forgiven for skimming through a front-page Los Angeles Times article from February 12 and thinking that the story was [...]
1Aug2006 | Steven Greenhut | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Effrontery of the "Open Space" Movement
New Hampshire is called the “Live Free or Die”
state. It has garnered such a reputation as a bastion
of freedom that the Porcupine members
of the Free State Project selected it as the place to which
they would like to relocate in order to live more independently
and more productively.
Taking Liberties . . . and Properties
It’s happened again. A local government is condemning a group of homes so the land can be turned over to the developer of a shopping center. Why? The shopping center will rake in more tax revenue than the homes do. The use of eminent domain to raise money for government is catching on. We’ve seen [...]
1Jan2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedEducational Decarceration
Daniel Hager is a senior research associate with Patrick Henry Associates in East Lansing, Michigan. When I was a teacher I reached a conclusion that put me at odds with the mystique that surrounds government schooling: the most beneficial times during the school year for many of my students were snow days. These kids were [...]
1Jul1998 | Daniel Hager | 2 comments | ContinuedUnconventional Wisdoms: The Best of Warren Brookes edited by Thomas J. Bray
Pacific Research Institute • 1997 • 302 pages • $16.95 Philip Murray is associate professor of economics at Webber College in Babson Park, Florida. Warren Brookes was a nationally syndicated columnist who developed a reputation as a great opponent of statist nonsense and a great proponent of sound thinking in science, economics, and politics. In [...]
1Mar1998 | Philip R. Murray | 0 comments | Continued-
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