Comments on: How to Create a Serfdom

By: New York Renovator

New York Renovator — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:48:47 +0000

[...] were occurring– lots of homes foreclose, and lots of investors snap them up (see my post How to Create a Serfdom about that). But this is a HUGE, across-the-board failure in the United States (and in a few other [...]

By: Beebalm

Beebalm — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:23:14 +0000

I could be wrong but as I remember correctly from college that the original “property” tax was meant only for someone who made a profit from their property, such as if you had a farm or some other enterprise on that property that made money. Per the founding fathers, this would only have made the most sense.

By: New York Renovator

New York Renovator — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:09:02 +0000

[...] the other posts I’ve written about this subject– you can read more about it on my post, How To Create a Serfdom, which is exactly what the government and their fascist corporations are doing to us. These tyrants [...]

By: Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:39:20 +0000

#23: Urban mining is a big problem in a lot of places. In many areas, it means that it costs less to tear down the house than to fix it.

There are two markets for that kind of house: buy it, fix it, & sell it and buy it, fix it & rent it out.

If no one is buying (except those looking for pretty houses at fixer prices), the first is out.

Many of the states that have a bad out flux of home owners also have very landlord unfriendly laws. So that puts a damper on the second market.

By: hparis

hparis — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:13:11 +0000

someone already beat me to the punch. I was gonna say, “spoken like a true Libertarian!”

two items on the Libertarian docket – property rights and repeal of the 16th amendment. But there’s only so much that a clean up on the federal level can accomplish. You (and I) still live in New York, the Tax Me State. But if real change on a federal level were to occur, New York would have to straighten up in order to prevent the mass exodus which will ensue as people flee the state for greener pastures… oh wait! It’s already begun! Buffalo has lost about 500,000 residents already. I live in an abandoned shell of a city where most of the people remaining are on the welfare rolls. Yet the politicians just don’t get it. It’s pretty bad when the largest employer in the State IS the government itself!

BTW, you can pick up a dump or two in my hood for a few hundred (back taxes), but you’ll have to replace the copper that the scrappers stole.