Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has penned this very sobering column that exposes why the League of California Cities and the Redevelopment Community in California is so supportive of Proposition 99 — it is worse than doing nothing.
For the past several months, local government interests, including the League of California Cities and the California State Association of Counties, have spent millions of dollars touting Prop. 99 as ironclad protection for Californians who fear having their homes seized by local governments to be turned over to private developers for strip-malls and other for-profit projects. But the list of property rights experts who reject this claim is growing. This is because Prop. 99 includes significant loopholes that will allow public agencies to continue to forcibly seize owner occupied homes and give them to wealthy and politically connected developers, even if the measure wins voter approval.
According to the Institute for Justice (IJ), an independent non-profit organization that represented Susette Kelo before the U.S. Supreme Court in the controversial Kelo v. New London case, public agencies could circumvent Prop. 99’s purported homeowner protections by merely rezoning residential neighborhoods for business use.
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May 11th, 2008 at 12:00 am
When citizens look to government for almost every need known to man it becomes obvious government will respect no limits on its power!
Corrupt ego maniac politicans constantly tell citizens they will change people’s lives using government power….
Flash Report features many of these losers vying for power, wealth, prestige….Republicans are no different than Democrats…it is only a matter of big government vs total government…pick your future!