| Submit your comments on this article |
| Government Corruption |
| In Both California and Florida, Citizens Lose Rights At The Hand of State Government |
| 2025-01-16 |
| [News With Views] Control of zoning controls lives. For instance, in California: "NEW DENSE MULTI-FAMILY CONSTRUCTION ON PRIVATE HOMEOWNER LAND ALLOWED" California Senate Bill 1123 passed last summer — May in the Senate, August in the House — and was signed into law by Newsom this past September. I have to wonder how many Californians were even aware of this This law was already on the books when the fires hit. It was passed in 2024. Then, the fires took care of much of the rest. Those victims of their own government may find that developers are constructing multi-family residences where once there were beautiful homes . This may or may not be found to be unconstitutional but the bill seems to have become law nonetheless. A total of only NINE legislators in both houses — ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE — voted against this Marxist land grab. Remember, Karl Marx felt that Communists should seek ’the abolition of bourgeois property’. That meant, property belonging to the upper class, not the "worker". Pretty much describes a lot of the properties now in ruins in the wealthy communities of LA. In my last Substack on the subject, I suggested that Newsom, Bass et. al., allowed (encouraged? planned?) these fires to ravage the wealthy areas, in order to remove many of the beautiful homes, because they had plans to rebuild LA in the image of a UN C40 City, with multi-family residences only, in tall "stack and pack" towers. Ron DeSantis, recently pulled something like this over on his constituents. After his reelection at the end of 2022, Tallahassee quietly and quickly (only 6 weeks!) passed FL SB 102. This is the “Live Local Act”, one of the first laws passed in the new 2023 legislative year: “deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc.” To facilitate the construction of “affordable housing”…rather than “bourgeoise”… This bill is much less direct but it essentially does the same, removing local government from their own control over zoning and taxing ordinances and allowing the Governor to approve local building projects for affordable housing, ETC. What’s the “ETC”, I wonder…? How much more can Tallahassee slip in here? This “Live Local Act” is not nearly the obvious grab of private ownership rights as is California’s law, but it does remove some Constitutional rights of governance. I couldn’t help but point it out, with the latest behaviors of Tallahassee as it tried to remove America First Republicans from power in the Party. Remember, those counties most in the eye of that storm are those with plenty of land yet to be developed. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 ...everything west from the Coastal Ranges and below Mendocino. Only takes 2/3rds of the Senate to approval a change to the existing Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-16 18:13 |
| #5 ^Have you considered giving it back to Mexico?😎 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-01-16 15:08 |
| #4 "NEW DENSE MULTI-FAMILY CONSTRUCTION ON PRIVATE HOMEOWNER LAND ALLOWED" I see it everywhere I go these days. Huge new, multistory apartment and condo complexes are popping up like mushrooms all over southern California. We didn't have the infrastructure for all of the people who already live here. It will only get worse. I keep saying this: The only way to make California affordable for all of the people in the whole wide world who want to live here is to turn the entire state into a Third World slum and Newsom is hell bent on doing just that. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-01-16 14:13 |
| #3 The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that, by 2030, individuals would own nothing and be happy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-16 10:17 |
| #2 ...sort of like stock options. You don't actually own the stock, just the option to. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-16 09:51 |
| #1 Own your own home? Actually not. You simply lease it from the government. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-16 09:36 |