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Digging in: Busybodies Part II
Washington Times ^ | Friday, December 5, 2003 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 12/04/2003 11:20:40 PM PST by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:40:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A reader wrote recently about his father, who has been a farmer, but is now ready to retire. His father figured on selling his land to get some money for his golden retirement years. But he found he cannot get anywhere near the land's market value because busybodies have passed laws that destroy most of that value by restricting the sale of farmland.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: busybodies; propertyrights; thomassowell
Friday, December 5, 2003

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