By Paul Weiser
A significant issue today is "takings" - government corruptly confiscating property or its use. Everyone who's not corrupt himself recognizes this is wrong; everyone needs to also understand that the practice isn't limited to real estate.
The Constitution clearly states (Amendment V) that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. Although legal weasels have asserted a false dichotomy between "public" and "private" use for which property may (they claim) be taken, in fact preceding phrases in the Amendment make it clear public use is the sole exception to a general rule that no person shall be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law - that is, as punishment for crime.
Government seizing private property for transfer to another private owner is thus totally illegitimate - which everyone except corrupt government officials and co-conspirator developers recognize. Their rationalization that tearing down "blight," so-called, to replace with developers' projects is that it will increase tax revenues. Though irrelevant, this rationalization can also be seen in a broader context.
There are takings of property, and cultural takings - of religion, language, and ethics. Just as developers and their government cronies rationalize that evicting us and tearing down our houses will bring government more tax revenue - thus falling within their power - businesses and the same sort of government stooges claim we must surrender our common language (English), culture (Protestant) and economic status (a seller's market in labor) so they may benefit from illegal immigrants' cheapness, cultural incompatibility and political ignorance.
Some even say illegals pay more taxes than they absorb in benefits - which may be true, manipulating political subdivisions to cook the books. But the fact is, winking at illegals, and rewarding them with amnesty, is an illegitimate and intentional cultural taking that every true American must resist.
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