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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
You don't believe in zoning but you believe in every other mechanism of social control?
And you still haven't answered why zoning can't be a legitimate form of contracting. Certainly private covenants and easements are legitimate, right?
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If I inherit 40 acres from my grandfather with a couple old cars and a chicken coop on it, I don't want anyone telling me the old cars are junk and the chickens have to go.
The only thing that prevented me from sticking a couple animals in my old suburban homestead was the zoning. Fact is, the social contract in the Boston 'burbs as a whole eliminate entire ways of life as an option in favor of uniform dullness. Zoning isn't so much contracting (like private restrictions) as it is enforced conformity of the minority by the majority.
And, on the forms of social control, bitch please. It is the Rs who are fond of social controls these days, whether the issue is abortion, free speech, or school mandates. Spanky is the one who thinks teachers should not be free to unionize. The Rs are the ones who want to mandate testing, eliminating curriculum choices for the local schools.
I would provide much more complete funding for education, and have nothing against getting that funding from a fair tax system, but that's why I say I'm the closest thing to a libertarian on the board. A true libertarian would slash education funding and home school.
