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Fine the Landlords
Part 3
By M. Randolph Hamilton
Fruits of Your Labor (continued)
The following quote was sent to me by the author of the first page you will see when visiting The Thomas Paine Network. I do not understand the reason for this, because when reading it, it supports the argument that one's labor is his property. If he labors to fund the purchase of land, he has produced the right to the land. It is true that he didn't actually make the land, but he did labor to have control over it. That is his land.
[John Locke]:
"...Every man has a 'property' in his own 'person'.
This nobody has a right to but himself. The 'labour' of
his body and the 'work' of his hand, we may say, are
properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of
the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he
hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something
that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. ...
For this 'labor' being the unquestionable property of the
labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is
once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as
good left in common for others. ... (John Locke, *Second
Treatise of Government*, ch.5, sec.26-35)
In a free market, I can choose to pay a landlord to rent his land, or I can choose to buy my own land. I can choose to rent someone else's land if that is what I so desire. I can also choose to homestead in those areas where that still exists. If the landlord cannot get someone to rent his land, then he has a choice o either sell it or reduce the rent until he gets a tenant willing to pay his price. Rents can only be increased in any given market when there is someone willing to pay the price. That is why land in some ares cost $1,000 per acre to purchase and that much per square foot in others. The market always discounts everything. That is how a free market works. When the supply exceeds the demand prices go down. When the demand exceeds that supply, then prices go up. On one hand, people do need a place to live. One the other hand there are still places that one can homestead. You just need to be willing to move.
As to the quote above by John Locke, it is better served as evidence to the income tax debate, because it has nothing to do with land ownership and everything to do with owning your labor.
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Senators skeptical of Real ID Act rules
By Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: March 26, 2007, 3:01 PM PDT
Last modified: March 26, 2007, 4:01 PM PDT
Leaders of a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel joined a chorus of outsiders, including many state government officials, who have questioned the costs and privacy implications of the congressionally mandated shift to identification cards that must adhere to a bevy of national standards.
