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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> But it goes to show how easily locals are corrupted.  This is the very 
> reason that property rights are constitutionally guaranteed.

We could write books about this and others have. Property rights have to be 
defended. Native Americans can tell you about that. Such rights are more 
effectively defended against local scoundrels than from disconnected, 
far-away scoundrels wielding big sticks. As for real property rights, they 
are subject to the king's/lord's/commissioners' rights. Don't pay land 
taxes and see how property rights sustain. We note that there are no 
national property taxes. The authority to tax land is a local right. So 
far. Would we like DC decisions on that matter, also? Not I.