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Life, Liberty and Property Rights

OPINION: Fight for Your (Property) Rights!

The expression “fight for your rights” is usually associated with socialism. Socialists and statists fought—and still fight—for positive rights, as in FDR’s famous “freedom from want,” which suggests that the people have the right to receive from the state the material conditions necessary for an arbitrarily defined “dignified” life, such as housing, healthcare, education, pension, and various … Read more

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ROPER: Watch Democrat Leaderships’ Words Carefully

If there is one thing I’ve learned watching and often finding myself neck deep in Vermont politics over the past quarter century, it is that you have to evaluate every word that comes out of Democrats’ mouths for linguistic loopholes. This, after all, is the party of “it depends on what the definition of “is” … Read more

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KLAR: A Textbook Case of How Progressives Rob the Working-Class

Ken Lund The Green Mountain State is a textbook case of how progressives employ social justice causes to drain the wallets and dreams of citizens. A growing populist backlash against a land use scheme that will steal wealth from property owners without any compensation is just the tip of the Marxist iceberg that is sinking the once-Republican … Read more

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KLAR: Vermont Goes to War against Landowners

Growing awareness about a progressive Vermont land-use measure has sparked widespread populist backlash. Act 181 was passed in 2024 by the Green Mountain State’s progressive supermajority, overcoming Governor Phil Scott’s veto. Falsely framed as a pro-housing bill, the stealth measure seeks to preserve natural resources at the expense of traditional development rights, draining wealth from property … Read more

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MACDONALD: A Unique Solution to the Problem of ‘Squatters’

One of the glorious joys of free-market capitalism is the ability of individuals to find solutions to problems, especially those the government creates, while tying its own hands to one damn thing to address it. Squatters, for example, find homes unoccupied either as rentals, vacation homes, or just a one where residents went on vacation. … Read more

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THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

Property rights throughout our nation and around the world suffer because a supposed environmental doomsday is coming. Socialists are marketing this emotion-triggering threat to limit and control property rights. The evil nature legalizing this silent plunder turns the purpose of government to protect life and property upside down. Once again, the age-old strategy of using … Read more

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A Commoner’s View On Housing Bill Madness

Let’s be clear.  This isn’t about preventing a family from converting their garage into a studio apartment for Granny so she doesn’t have to spend the rest of her life in assisted living or any other commonly used argument to gaslight people sounding the alarm on potential loss of local control.  A few other scenarios … Read more

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By What Authority Are We Doing This?

This is the fundamental question public officials must ask and answer before taking any official action. If the answer is ‘We don’t know. . .’ then they have a duty to find out! Apparently, such was not the case in the matter of the Town of Danbury Planning Board when they devised and engaged in … Read more

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Civilization Is The Price We Pay For Taxes

Wait, isn’t that backwards? Didn’t Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously say that ‘Taxes are the price we pay for civilization’? He did, but he had it backwards. Taxes are, as Tommy Shelby said of politics in general, a way of deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others. … Read more

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The Federal Loophole That Fuels Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

A federal asset forfeiture program known as equitable sharing provides law enforcement agencies with a major loophole, allowing them to continue seizing property almost unabated – even when state laws seek to limit such practices. WHAT IS ASSET FORFEITURE? Civil asset forfeiture is the process by which governments seize cash or property that was allegedly … Read more

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An Infringement on Private Property Rights

In my previous op-ed, I explained where natural resource inventories come from; in this one, I will explain why they are an infringement on private property rights.  Chances are that your town has done a natural resource inventory (NRI); most have.  At its core, an NRI is a map that is laid over your town … Read more

Opposing ‘Evict First, Ask Questions Later’ 

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the U.S. District Court’s ruling in Murphy v. Delaware, Justices of the Peace, which dismissed the lawsuit and granted quasi-judicial immunity to constables who knowingly evicted the wrong person—a blind man—and left him homeless with his daughters during a snowstorm. On appeal, Institute attorneys argue … Read more

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The Presumption of Liberty

The presumption of liberty is an established liberal tradition according to which any restrictions on individual liberty require justification. Gerald Gaus and Shaun Nichols depict this as a principle of “natural liberty,” a “general presumption in favor of freedom of action.” As they explain, if natural liberty is a general presumption we expect, it to … Read more

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An Orwellian Reinterpretation of Human Rights

Ludwig von Mises depicts the aim of revolutionary socialism as: “to clear the ground for building up a new civilization by liquidating the old one.” One of the main strategies in liquidating a civilization involves dismantling its legal and philosophical foundations. This role is fulfilled by activists who embark upon “sabotage and revolution” by subverting the meaning of words: “The … Read more

Squatter Dilemma Defies Common Sense

You have a beautiful home filled with memories of your family growing up. You pay the mortgage, taxes, utilities, and whatever is needed for upkeep. Along with the memories, your home is filled with pride. You have planned a two-week family vacation, and your home will be vacant during your absence. Years ago, this would not be a concern.

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Betrayal of Property Rights by Government Is Stealing

Mao’s Agrarian reform growing into Klaus Swab’s WEF, Great Reset and the UN Agenda 30 plans will control every aspect of our lives. The Harold Ware Communist Party Cell planted in the Agriculture Department in 1933 sprouted the American “War on The Farmers.”

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