Jim,
>SNIP
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>>(In the USA we have property rights, as long as we pay taxes. You could say, in effect, that we rent from Uncle SAM!)
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>Are you sure that you have property rights there Jerry? I thought I'd read, when that debate resurfaced here a few years back, that 'even the U.S.A. does not have property rights in its constitution'.
We do, but as Jerry pointed out, that has pretty much been superceeded by the government being able to confiscate property at will via non-payment of taxes.
Best,
DD
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