“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law”.
Third Amendment to the US Constitution
This is lunacy. I have often represented landlords evicting sometimes deranged tenants. I can’t imagine all the havoc that could be wreaked by ordinary home owners being compelled by taxes to rent out “spare bedrooms”. As kids grow up and leave the house, people often have empty bedrooms that are repurposed. My Bride finally got her long desired yarn room when our daughter got her librarian job and moved to an apartment in another city.
The concept of spare bedrooms is almost totally illusory. They are empty rooms that can be used for many other purposes. This is a bad idea caused by governments who have embraced policies sending the cost of housing sky high and taxing home owners in a make believe attempt to seem to be doing something about the problem. It makes the hard pressed taxpayer pay yet more taxes for government malfeasance. Despicable.
Governments do not own private property. If the government cannot be sued for the rapes and murders that occur because of this coercion; isn’t the government responsible for security paid for by tax dollars already paid?
“For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
For protecting them.by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.” The Declaration of Independence.
Usurpation of Private Property. Denial of Citizens’ civil right to own property.
What about all of the empty rooms in Buckingham Palace?
Gee, ya think?!
Haven’t even heard of this – had to Google it.
It’s a total non-issue. Increasing the GST (which Labor had lied about during the election) is the actual problem. High immigration (which the Labor government are concealing numbers about) because of lazy locals is the actual problem.
This is Channel 10 reporting (owned by a Paramount Global- who Trump successfully sued for US$16mill) media sensationalism at its worst.
Pitch forks, axes, shovels, garden hoes….whatever it takes. Don’t let them get away with it. The State needs to beat back by any means possible when the level of criminal activity reaches this height.
To hell with them.
(sorry. the state needs to BE beat back…)
A Yarn Room !! Be Still My Beating Heart !
Politicians think up these harassment gestures in lieu of offending their clients by spending reductions or by offending the general public by hiking conventional taxes.
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Measures which inflate the cost of housing are certainly an issue in Canada and in select portions of the United States (California, New York City). Not sure about the rest of the country.
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IMO, state constitutions should have a series of appendices which define the tax base – one on principles of real property assessment, one on principles of estate appraisal, one on a definition of taxable personal income, one on a definition of taxable capital gains, one on a definition of taxable value added, one on a definition employee compensation, one on corporate revenue, one on final sales, &c. The constitution would vest in each type of government a menu of permissible revenue sources and the sort of funds to which they could be sluiced. The levy rates would be at the discretion of legislatures, but they’d have to stay in their lane as to the type of charges they could assess and they could not alter the tax base.
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Some measures which might help: (1) that public employee’s fringe benefits be financed out of withholdings on their paycheck (workman’s compensation excepted); (2) that weekly working hours, vacation time, sick time, leave time, and holiday time for public employees be in quantity similar to the mean of the private sector; (3) that total employee compensation per worker of any government (state, county, municipal, and school district) be similar to that in the state’s private sector (with that in government corporations permitted to be higher if such corporations were financed entirely out of their service charges to customers); (4) that only uniformed police, uniformed fire-and-rescue personnel, and construction workers would earn early retirement credits; (5) that employees earning early retirement credits would have a double-share of their paycheck routed to their retirement account; (6) that bonuses and commissions for public employees were verboten; (7) that employee compensation in excess of the 96th percentile of the private sector was verboten unless the legislative body approved a salary increment in a resolution which named the employee and the calendar year for which the increment was to be given and such a resolution was passed after a public hearing, the yeas and nays on the resolution were recorded, and a majority of the boards elected members were recorded as yeas. Which means that (8) public employee unions would be compelled to function as voluntary mutual aid societies and never as collective bargaining agents.
We kicked George III to the curb for far less than what the rest of the Anglosphere is inflicting on its people.
Push back before it’s too late, cousins.
I remember arguments against the 2nd Amendment saying “it’s silly to think western governments would become totalitarian given the chance..,”
That argument is now completely CLOSED.
Surprised Momdani hasn’t glommed onto this idea. Perhaps those whose don’t actually have a second bedroom (about 30%) could be compelled to install bunkbeds. He, of course, will be exempt. Could consider it a sort of hostel takeover.
A comedian summed up the insanity of proposals coming out of California, in particularly the reparations due to African Americans;
“It’s like having to pay child support to someone else’s children who’s mother you never had relations with.”
https://precinctreporter.com/2020/09/30/gov-newsom-signs-reparations-bill-into-law/
I’d like to get a cool million from England for the hell they put my Irish relatives through.
What?
Preposterous you say?
…..ah ya….right.
Philip:
Bloody Sunday
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