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That zoning was invented for racial exclusion is not hypothetical. These guys were on the record with their motivations.
by jeffbee 2y ago
That zoning was invented for racial exclusion is not hypothetical. These guys were on the record with their motivations.
- potato3732842 2y agoThe whole race thing is a distraction from the fact that the evil motivations to use the force of government to micromanage others for the most petty and frivolous of reasons (a category that "wrong skin color" would surely fall into) persist to this day.
- jeffbee 2y agoI agree, because I hold vanilla libertarian beliefs about property rights. Unfortunately 99.12% of American libertarians are using the word to mean "selfish asshole" and as soon as you suggest that zoning is a government taking, they abandon the whole platform to defend zoning.
- Schiendelman 2y agoI'm with you, fellow .88%!
- potato3732842 2y ago>and as soon as you suggest that zoning is a government taking Not just zoning, but pretty much any government regulation. It boggles my mind that my state's equivalent of the EPA can just decree whatever their policy is, which has consequences on what they'll approve or won't, and this affects land values massively, and this doesn't legally get classified as a taking. >they abandon the whole platform to defend zoning. Which is a social problem that pretty much the entire western world suffers from these days. We don't shun, marginalize and otherwise punish people who are chronically two faced and lack principals (whatever those principals may be).
- Schiendelman 2y agoInstead of worrying about the people - make government pay for takings. It'd be a popular initiative (by which I mean capital-I Initiative, the process available in the Western states).