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Boxer's Confusion about Ownership, by Tibor R. Machan, 4 May 2007
Related Topics: Communism, John Locke
Explains the absurdity of California Senator Barbara Boxer's statement that public lands are "owned ... by the American people"
"The moral of Wittgenstein's gesture is plain: Ownership without the authority to decide to what use what is being owned will be put is meaningless, absurd. ... If the American people need to be allowed to make certain kinds of use of the lands Senator Boxer's bill makes public property, they aren't the owners of such property." |
| California's Blow Against Property Rights, by Sheldon Richman, Dec 1997 |
Extortion in Port Chester, by Sheldon Richman, 5 Jan 2007
"Local planning entities and politically connected developers have been running roughshod over property rights for years. It has become so common that it's hardly controversial anymore. It's just the way things are done. Most people think economic development couldn't happen without such practices." |
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| Housing Discrimination Laws and the Continuing Erosion of Property Rights, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, May 1999 |
How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims, by Tom Bethell, Hoover Digest, 1999
Excerpted and adapted from The Noblest Triumph
"Knowing that the fruits of his labor would benefit his own family and dependents, the head of each household was given an incentive to work harder. ... the division of property established a proportion or 'ratio' between act and consequence. Human action is deprived of rationality without it, and work will decline sharply as a result." |
Senator Feinstein and property rights, by Thomas Sowell, 10 Nov 2003
"One of the main reasons for the outrageous housing prices in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay area is precisely the over-riding of property rights. Endless restrictions, obstructions, and bureaucratic delays facing anyone who is building anything on their own property in this area have forced housing costs to astronomical levels." |
Some reflections on Georgism, by Tibor R. Machan, Rational Review, 29 Jul 2004
"Since there is no one else who has done so much for the creation of this value than the individual who recognized the potential and then acted on it, he or she ought to be the one to use and control it-- he has property rights to it." |
California's Blow Against Property Rights, by Sheldon Richman, Dec 1997
Related Topics: California
"We generally understand that the owner of private property sets the rules ... That principle does not change if the owner opens his place to the public in order to make a profit. ... It is his right to decide whether to serve Mexican food or Chinese food. Likewise, it is his right to decide whether to permit or prohibit smoking." |
Don't Do It, Google, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 2 May 2006
Related Topics: Free Markets, Government
"There is also the matter of property rights. MS does own Windows and it will own its successor too. It also owns Internet Explorer. It also owns its search engine. How it bundles those products must be left to the owner. The alternative is to get the government involved in designing and managing how software is built, managed, and marketed." |
Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution, by Murray N. Rothbard, Cato Journal 2, 1982
Related Topics: Law, Randy E. Barnett, Cancer, Richard A. Epstein, Ethics, Personal Responsibility, Property, Freedom of Speech
"... tort or criminal law is a set of prohibitions against the invasion of, or aggression against, private property rights; that is, spheres of freedom of action by each individual. ... then the implication of the command, 'Thou shall not interfere with A's property right,' is that A's property right is just and therefore should not be invaded." |
Thomas Jefferson's Sophisticated, Radical Vision of Liberty, by Jim Powell, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jul 1995
Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson ... insisted that liberty is impossible without secure private property: 'a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings. ...'" |
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| What is "Independence Day" About, Father?, by Chuck Asay, 2 Jul 2005 |
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The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
by Tom Bethell, 1998 |
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