[279] in libertarians
Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (castillo@media.mit.edu)
Tue Sep 27 19:08:22 1994
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 19:06:30 -0400
From: castillo@media.mit.edu
>| To date there has never been a
>| court ruling that eliminated any bureaucratic regulation, tax rate or
>| entitlement program...no matter how oppressive the burden.
>
>Not quite. Wasn't there a supreme court case a few years ago where they
>ruled that some California land-use regulation amounted to a violation of
>the "takings" clause?
Well...almost. The Supreme Court sent it back to a lower court for
adjudication without explicitly stating that the taking clause of the
constitution applies to ecological land-use regulations. The owner of
the rezoned seaside lot will probably eventually get compensated, so we
can chalk this one up as a win, but without any clear mandate for
property rights.
My great hope was for rent control to be abolished for the same
constitutional reasons, but I'm not holding my breath.
"make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
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