• Home
  • About
  • Discussion

Exposing Faux Capitalism

to the dismay of the Federal Reserve and other faux capitalists

Feeds:
Posts
Comments
« Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak’s KW byelection hypocrisy
A proposal that anti-nuclear activists and free market advocates can support »

Waterloo City Council’s mixed message on property rights

August 15, 2012 by FauxCapitalist

Waterloo City CouncilAs reported by the Waterloo Chronicle on August 15, 2012, in their article, A better way:

“She now goes out of her way to avoid the Northdale neighbourhood and the surrounding area because she can’t stand the look of the bland, characterless apartments currently being built there.“

“Yet while city staff and some councillors say the city must walk a fine line to balance the enforcement of visual and aesthetic guidelines with the rights of developers — even going so far to consider using millions of dollars in incentives to rebuild Northdale — there are some builders in the city who have already taken that next step without a handout from the city.“

If Waterloo City Council really cared about the property rights of individuals, they wouldn’t take millions of dollars in the form of property taxes in order to redistribute them to other property owners. Particularly, I see favouritism toward well-monied property owners, but it’s become so commonplace these days, even when it’s as blatant as taking money from the unemployed and underemployed for something as blatant as video game research, as I previously documented in my article, Canadian government calls for austerity, awards $5.8 million for video game research.

The last sentence of the paragraph I quoted shows that private developers can succeed in spite of regressive policies such as the one Waterloo City Council has floated.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged government, local government, Northdale, property, property rights, rights, video games, Waterloo, Waterloo Chronicle, Waterloo City Council | 2 Comments

2 Responses

  1. on August 20, 2012 at 4:46 am Jason Erb interviews his local Libertarian candidate, Allan Dettweiler « Exposing Faux Capitalism

    […] Whether the provincial legislature should bar municipal governments, like Waterloo’s, from redistributing private property, as I had discussed in my article, Waterloo City Council’s mixed message on property rights. […]


  2. on August 16, 2012 at 2:43 pm FauxCapitalist

    A link to my article was provided by someone as a comment to the Waterloo Chronicle article.



Comments are closed.

  • Exposing Faux Capitalism Radio

  • Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Follow @FauxCapitalist
  • Facebook

    Facebook
  • Recent Posts

    • Thoughts on Justin Trudeau’s groping incident
    • Ontario election night thoughts, and a tribute to Doug Ford
    • Robert Mugabe was a known communist back in the 70s
    • Charles Manson’s most intelligent statement ever
    • Americans discovering Canada’s version of The Onion, the Beaverton, through this story
    • My articles about Charlie Rose, before he was disgraced with allegations of sexual impropriety and assault
    • Before Weinstein, Spacey, Franken, Rose and others, there was the Franklin Coverup
    • Two interesting things about Hugh Hefner
    • “Canada’s Donald Trump” running for Conservative leadership
    • The Top 10 all-time articles at FauxCapitalist.com by 2016
    • Top 10 articles of 2016 at Exposing Faux Capitalism
    • Election Day thoughts
    • Happy Dominion Day
    • Causes of hate crimes, post Brexit
    • Some thoughts on successful Brexit
  • Top Posts & Pages

    • The United States isn't a federal corporation
    • Meet Gary Franchi, the radical Zionist behind Next News Network
    • The U.S. Constitution doesn't say money should be gold or silver coin
    • Fascism is not the merger of government and corporations
    • Who is behind enenews.com?
    • I'm blowing the whistle on World Bank whistleblower Karen Hudes
    • Slate's bogus AIDS scam hit piece
    • About
    • Flashback 2012: Alex Jones knew that Alan Watt outed him as a fearmonger and a NWO agent
    • John Stormer, author of None Dare Call it Treason, admits to being dependent on Social Security
  • Blogs I Follow

    • hatrickpenry
    • The Daily Knell
    • Recovering Austrians
    • Real Currencies
  • Blog Stats

    • 700,399 hits

Blog at WordPress.com.

WPThemes.


hatrickpenry

AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

The Daily Knell

Recovering Austrians

Supporting recovering Austrian Economics addicts and their families

Real Currencies

Supporting People and the Commonwealth and resisting the Money Power by defeating Usury

%d bloggers like this: