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Clowns on the Left, Jokers on the Right
ByjbpThis was originally posted on Live Oaks on December 16, 2009. Comments have not been migrated. While Leftists in Washington are busy assaulting our property rights through “cap and trade”, health care “reform” and massive spending, “rightists” in another Washington–Washington University (WU) in St. Louis are busy assaulting intellectual property rights. Last week the Christian…
A Private Beach is Threatened
ByjbpThis was originally posted on Live Oaks on July 23, 2009. Comments have not been migrated. While the Texas Open Beaches Act (TOBA) made land along the shore “public property”, a small section of beach in Galveston has remained private property since the enactment of TOBA in 1959. According to the Chronicle: The Legislature approved…
Negating the Principle of Property Rights
Like most conservatives, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claims to support property rights. And, like most conservatives, he carves out exceptions. In doing so, DeSantis and his fellow conservatives are negating the principle of property rights. As an example, DeSantis recently defended the use of eminent domain when it serves a “public purpose”: So sometimes you…
Free Market Solutions
This post is the second in a series. Before I could determine if Ayn Rand was correct in claiming that “without property rights, no other rights are possible,” I had to understand what property rights really means. Sure, I could recite the definition: “The right to property means the freedom to produce, use, and trade…
Discrimination is a Property Right (and a Necessity)
A Washington state court recently struck down a Seattle ordinance that forced landlords to rent to the next tenant in line if that individual met the landlord’s minimum standards. In short, once the landlord set minimum standards, he could not discriminate on the basis of anything else. The Washington court ruled that this constituted a…