Humans have always desired to own a piece of land that could be passed on to their heirs. Once they acquired property for homestead or farming, men labored on their land under the assumption that it was theirs to keep in perpetuity.
If you ask the government, land belongs to the proprietor as long as the required taxes are paid in full each year and the government does not confiscate the property through eminent domain or deem it environmentally endangered and in need of protection. If you ask progressives, land belongs equally to everyone and nobody should be allowed to “own” anything, it should be communal property.
The painful lesson in communal property (communism) at Jamestown has been forgotten or never learned. When people worked the land together, some worked harder and some were lazier, yet everyone ate the same. The entire settlement almost starved to death. The following year, when the communal property was divided into individual parcels, everyone prospered.
Humans understood then that individual freedom and cooperation on smaller scale are much more successful than domination by a few in an exclusively government-run society.
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2 comments:
This is exactly the mentality of the "Moderate" Josh Hastings. Anyone that votes for this admitted employee of a land conservancy deserves to lose their land and their property rights.
Thank you Chuck Cook, Jim Ireton and Jake Day. Their plan is to take over Wicomico County and give away your land just like they are doing with the Firehouse and the City Parking lots. Those are our properties. That's right properties that were bought and paid for by us the tax payer.
I read this article myself and it had Josh Hastings name written all over it. I think you voters need to do your homework before you decide to vote for him. That goes for Democrats and Republicans.
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