Government Property Is Sacred. Your Property? Not So Much.

The sign of a healthy society is one where private property is respected, and not just the private property of social media whales or parasitic defense contractors, but that of everyday business owners. By the same token, a society with a modicum of sanity would laud acts of self-defense against criminals who wish to harm the property and persons of lawful individuals.

https://mises.org/wire/government-property-sacred-your-property-not-so-much

Good article.
I'll only add this.
If you think you own your property, just refuse to pay your property taxes and see who ends up with it.

^^ That's the ruse. The reality is you're only renting your owned property. Your landlord may also raise your 'rent', at will, when they deem it even more profitable for them.

If our property were sacred, we wouldn't have stopped construction on the border wall in January.  We also wouldn't have hundreds of thousands of freeloaders, sex traffickers, and drug dealers swarming over our border.

OneDumbBlonde wrote:The sign of a healthy society is one where private property is respected, and not just the private property of social media whales or parasitic defense contractors, but that of everyday business owners. By the same token, a society with a modicum of sanity would laud acts of self-defense against criminals who wish to harm the property and persons of lawful individuals.

https://mises.org/wire/government-property-sacred-your-property-not-so-much

A subject near and dear to my heart.

From the (excellent) article:

On the other hand, Ludwig von Mises championed private property not just for the sake of sloganeering but to impart to others the necessity property rights as a means of fostering social harmony. As he observed in Omnipotent Government, “If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”

~snip~

The sign of a healthy society is one where private property is respected, and not just the private property of social media whales or parasitic defense contractors, but that of everyday business owners. By the same token, a society with a modicum of sanity would laud acts of self-defense against criminals who wish to harm the property and persons of lawful individuals.

Might I add, "the everyday homeowner."  Or, the that matter, "Renter," as he is lawfully afforded the same 4th Amendment protection rights as the next guy.  (Along w/several other rights.)  --
At least according to our Constitution all the above are supposed to be.


The modern-day beginning of the complete breakdown of respect for the private property of business owners began when society decided they could actually VOTE for what a private property owner may, or may not, allow on his private property.
Yes, "smoking laws."  Real United States citizens, who were supposedly taught civics, thought it was in their right to vote whether or not a business owner could allow smoking on his personally owned property.  Not with their feet; note with their wallets; but with an actual city referendum!

It was an horrendous OUTRAGE committed against what each and every U.S. citizen ought to hold most dear to his heart!  Yet, it wasn't even hard to find self-proclaimed "Conservatives" who were in favor of shredding the most important of foundations upon which liberty is built.

It's no comfort to think that perhaps one - or some - of those very same extraordinarily selfish do-gooders faced the same music during the more recent scourges that mutilated private property rights from west coast to east coast.

But I do wonder.  They were, after all, warned.