I don’t normally make a big show of my politics on this blog — mostly because I’m anarcho-capitalist enough to recognizes that government is never the solution and often the problem — but like Dr. Cornwall says below, the Kelo decision is a direct attack on small business and our entrepreneurial economy! At the heart free enterprise is the inherent right to own and dispose of property. Without it, we’re no longer anything but serfs working the government’s land!
The Kelo Decision is one of the most important cases affecting the rights of small business owners in years, but many of the major news and advocacy sites for entrepreneurs are still silent on the matter. I typed in “Kelo” into the search engines at Inc.com, NFIB, the SBA, Fortune Small Business, Entrepreneur.com, and StartupJournal.com and got…..nothing! Two of the 42 BizJournal sites ran the original story, but no follow-up.Come on guys! This decision hits at the heart of small business — free enterprise and the right to own property. Kelo is the first step toward a model in which government is considered the ultimate owner of all property and we are merely being allowed its use. The government no longer serves the people — we serve the government and if we don’t do this to their satisfaction they can take it back and reallocate to a “better use.” Convince the government that you can offer them more taxes on a piece of land and they can take if from the current owner and sell it to you. The case will cast a chill over our entrepreneurial economy.
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