Sunday, January 22, 2006

Maybe it is not just "death and taxes," just taxes.

You know the gallows humor of the only things you can be sure of are death and taxes?

So let's assume that you are a little church in Oklahoma. You have a small congregation, and your church is paying no property taxes. If you are a government bureaucrat hunting up revenue, which gospel do you follow: the church, or a big-box retailer?

Why the latter, of course!

The city government is trying to eminent domain the Centennial Baptist Church in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Reverend Roosevelt Gildon opposes it. But in this post-Kelo world, as blessed by our U.S. Supreme Court, the City can grab the land and tear the church down, under the theory that property tax revenues from a strip mall on the land will exceed those proffered by the church.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/wilhelm200601170926.asp

Yet another reminder of why protection of property rights is essential to our right to experience all our other liberties...

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