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Your Property Rights are Under Attack

Your Property Rights continue to be attacked from:

  • Eminent Domain abuse
  • Land Use regulations
  • Environmental regulations
  • Regional government
  • Watershed controls
  • Pollution controls
  • Endangered Species regulations
  • Regional planning committees
  • Smart Growth advocates
  • Global Warming alarmists
  • World Heritage Sites
  • Federal Heritage Areas, Rivers & Corridors

Opponents of Property Rights believe governments at all levels should control every aspect of our lives and property.

These people, with a "Berkeley" mentality, believe that property owners should continue to maintain their property in its present condition and use, and continue to pay the property taxes, so the general public can have the benefit of permanently viewing private property (they call agricultural parcels, for example, a “viewshed” which has strong property-control implications).

While ACRG does not necessarily endorse every position taken by the organizations listed below, they are fighting for your Property Rights:

Relevant Article

Property Rights ~ EXCELLENT READING
Armen A. Alchian ~ The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

One of the most fundamental requirements of a capitalist economic system—and one of the most misunderstood concepts—is a strong system of property rights. For decades social critics in the United States and throughout the Western world have complained that "property" rights too often take precedence over "human" rights, with the result that people are treated unequally and have unequal opportunities. Inequality exists in any society. But the purported conflict between property rights and human rights is a mirage—property rights are human rights.  PDF>>

Related Books:

Property and Freedom
By: Richard Pipes


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The Noblest Triumph
Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
By: Tom Bethell


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