Posted on 07/26/2010 7:32:49 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Cities View Homesteads as a Source of Income
By MONICA DAVEY
BEATRICE, Neb. — Give away land to make money?
It hardly sounds like a prudent scheme. But in a bit of déjà vu, that is exactly what this small Nebraska city aims to do.
Beatrice was a starting point for the Homestead Act of 1862, the federal law that handed land to pioneering farmers. Back then, the goal was to settle the West. The goal of Beatrice’s “Homestead Act of 2010,” is, in part, to replenish city coffers.
The calculus is simple, if counterintuitive: hand out city land now to ensure property tax revenues in the future.
“There are only so many ball fields a place can build,” Tobias J. Tempelmeyer, the city attorney, said the other day as he stared out at grassy lots, planted with lonely mailboxes, that the city is working to get rid of. “It really hurts having all this stuff off the tax rolls.”
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Reclaim the inner city via imminent domain, bulldoze it and sell homestead tracts. Large lots with utilities. Should be an easy sell vs. no-value, no-tax paying, net drain via service entitlement residential tracts.
I wonder what the conditions are?
Isn’t the underpinning for the Kelso decision based on urban government needs to “re-engineer” the collectives future at the expense of the individual? Sounds like a perfect fit for our new found socialists. I guess they never have to ask why nobody wants to live with them.
>I wonder what the conditions are?<
If the NAACP or Zero has any say it’ll be your color.
"Private land ownership is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market."
Every so often small towns in my general area have done this, hoping to entice people to move back, or move in. They need to build a home and live in the area a given amount of time to quallify. In the past I remember one instance where there was assistance in getting a home built. It is a so-so successful plan.
If a person is not a hard core have to have the city bright lights individual, and if you can find a way to make a living, it can be a good deal.
We cannot afford to create more idle poor people by building government-subsidized housing. You end up with a Detroit that cannot afford to feed itself.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that. Remember, there is a test coming up. The mid-term election in 2010!
We know that but the Dems don’t.
The “ruling class” isn’t getting enough serfs to keep them living their life of luxury? I guess they want to give the land away free so they can catch some slaves to work for them.
If your a government official and you view a property owner as a source of income, you should be treated the same as tory traitors during the revolution. Government’s JOB is to protect OUR unalienable rights. The right to own property is one of those RIGHTS. We are not your piggy bank, ATM, or Sugar Daddy. I don’t want to fund your, baseball fields, public schools, nursing homes, recreation departments, welfare departments, swimming pools, or the trough pig government workers who leach off the public.
inside fish farming and small animals....
Ducks, chickens and rabbits generate fertilizer for plants...alf-alfa, lettice and tomatoes....feed to the ducks, chickens and rabbits...sell whats left over.
duck and chicken eggs source of fish feed... (boiled and crumbled)...feed the fish....use a bio converter to change the amonia in fish water waste into nitrogen and grow more veggies.
anything left over gets fed to the pigs.
enjoy your harvest.
Thanks for the quote, MrB!
Of course, banks, pocket books, and wallets are also major instruments of accumulating wealth, thus exacerbating the social injustice already caused by the uneven distribution of ambition, self-discipline, work ethic, etc. So I vote that we outlaw them, too!
Regards,
Rabbits are made of ... meat.
“The way forward is sometimes the way back”
Something to watch for around Madison?
My dog could eat maybe one a day I suppose. But surely there would be lots of other scraps for the dog to eat...
I dismiss stories made up by people with too much time and too little imagination.
Phony morality tales are, more often than not, simple-minded embarrassment.
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