Not a shock there, but Lincoln County, NC wants to raise your taxes -- without calling it a tax increase:
Keep in mind -- when you hear the words "managed growth," that is STRONGLY, violently, anti-freedom. There's no such thing as "managed growth" without severe punishment for freedom.
If I own land, I can build whatever I want on it. Anyone who prevents me from doing so it restricting freedom. That's "managed growth." Those who support "managed growth" are socialists, plain and simply.
In a free country, government responds to the people. In socialist and communist government, the government tells the people what to do. ANYPLACE there is "managed growth," the government is telling the people what they are permitted to do with their own personal property.
So, if YOUR government supports "managed growth" in any way, shape, or form, they are using the violent force of government to completely and totally suppress freedom -- whether they admit it or not.
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They don't support managed growth in any way shape or form in Palm Beach County... or S. FL for that matter. Not that I can tell.
Posted by: Bou at February 23, 2006 12:10 PM (iHxT3)
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It's a big one nationwide -- it's also known as "smart growth."
Now I'm not sure about Palm Beach County, but I know places like Coral Springs, FL, planned every single building before one brick was laid there -- but that's a different issue -- if you buy knowing what you're supposed to build, that's different than we have here, where people who have owned land for literally hundreds of years are suddenly told what they will be permitted to build or not build.
Posted by: Ogre at February 23, 2006 12:22 PM (/k+l4)
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C'mon Ogre, you know you don't really own the land, you're just renting it from the government. Well at least with the new emminant domain rulings anyway. So if you build something on that land and the government decides to build shopping mall, it would cost them more to give you "fair" market value for it.
Sometimes I start to wonder if you're completely there anymore.
Posted by: Contagion at February 23, 2006 01:08 PM (Q5WxB)
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I know I live in a dreamland. I do. I dream of freedom and a Constitutional Republic. I'm not sure it will ever be possible in this land, but hope spring eternal...
Posted by: Ogre at February 23, 2006 01:57 PM (/k+l4)
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No regulation at all? So, if you build your dream house out on your land and the next week someone opens up a hog farm 50 feet away - you'd have no problem with that?
And, before you make a smarmy comment, have you ever BEEN to a hog farm, I mean actually BEEN to a big lagoon hog farm? Okay, now you can answer.
Posted by: Robert P at February 23, 2006 02:12 PM (7X7vQ)
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Managed growth is NOT about regulating hazardous waste. Managed growth is about telling people that they cannot build a house on their own land because the government would rather have an apartment building or a business that would generate more tax revenue. Government is supposed to respond to people, not tell them what to do.
And yes, I have visited and toured hog lagoons in Eastern NC. Nice places.
Posted by: Ogre at February 23, 2006 02:22 PM (/k+l4)
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So, you are for regulation, corporate regulation. You are saying that the government tells people they can't build a house on their own land because they want an apartment building or a business? Are we talking about an empty lot in downtown, or 1000 acres of farm land?
Could you give me an example, seriously, of where this has happened. I can understand the OPPOSITE happening. For instance, you build your dream house and the neighbors decided to put up a 10 story apartment building next door.
Posted by: Robert P at February 23, 2006 02:30 PM (7X7vQ)
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Davidson, NC is the prime example. The government there wants to preserve farmland. People have owned farmland there for literally hundreds of years -- but the city council has declared that not only are these people not permitted to build or improve their properties in any way, they are also not even allowed to split up and sell their own land!
Charlotte, NC, is also working on this. They are trying to force people to use the trains they are building, so they have declared certain areas as only "high-density" housing. So people there who want to make an addition to their homes are not permitted to -- the ONLY new construction allowed is apartment buildings.
Posted by: Ogre at February 23, 2006 02:35 PM (/k+l4)
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It all goes into Agenda 21. I hate to sound liek a conspiracy theorist, but UN Agenda 21 is responsible for this crap. If I own land and want to build a bigger house that is my business.
Posted by: kender at February 24, 2006 07:55 PM (p63Yb)
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To be honest, I've never heard of UN Agenda 21, and I'm SURE I don't want to.
But this is certainly an agenda, whether people want to admit it or not. It's socialism and communism. It's anti-freedom. It's part of the goal of those people who absolutely HATE freedom and the American Way.
Posted by: Ogre at February 24, 2006 08:07 PM (/k+l4)
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