Plateforme Level Extreme
Abonnement
Profil corporatif
Produits & Services
Support
Légal
English
Who cares about Waldo -- where's VFP 7?
Message
De
07/08/2001 11:16:54
 
Information générale
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Autre
Divers
Thread ID:
00539146
Message ID:
00540723
Vues:
35
Tom,

>>Jim,
>>
>>>SNIP
>>>>
>>>>(In the USA we have property rights, as long as we pay taxes. You could say, in effect, that we rent from Uncle SAM!)
>>>
>>>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.
>
>Doug;
>
>Don’t forget the right of government to confiscate your property through eminent domain. Two examples I have seen of such action include building freeway 280 through San Francisco and the LBJ Presidential Library in Johnson City, Texas. In both cases property was confiscated and the owners paid much less than market value.
>
>Don’t forget the right of government to confiscate your property through eminent domain. Two examples I have seen of such action include building freeway 280 through San Francisco and the LBJ Presidential Library in Johnson City, Texas. In both cases property was confiscated and the owners paid much less than market value.
>
>One man (retired) refused to leave his house when 280 was being built. A U.S. Army Tank was brought from the Presidio in San Francisco to destroy the mans house. The TV cameras showed the Tank demolishing the house and the man running out the back door as the house came tumbling down.
>
>In the case of LBJ, he had the two ranches, which adjoined his in Johnson City, condemned, so he could build his Library. The owners grew up with LBJ and the owners grandfathers helped LBJ’s grandfather establish Johnson City. The people of Johnson City were very upset at what LBJ did and I was there when it happened.
>
>Tom

Yup.. I remember in Los Angeles all the fights over the condemnation of what was going to be the Century Freeway. Land that sits vacant to this very day. After some 20 years...

And people want to give more power to the government???
Best,


DD

A man is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep for that which he cannot lose.
Everything I don't understand must be easy!
The difficulty of any task is measured by the capacity of the agent performing the work.
Précédent
Répondre
Fil
Voir

Click here to load this message in the networking platform