Anarcho-Land Ownership in Detroit
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lewrockwell.comPosted Oct 9, 2012, 1:18 PM UTC
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lewrockwell.comSome /b/ros on 4chan (perhaps in /pol/) were planning a whole ancap style community there. Haven't heard any updates in a while on this. Any news?
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Hey, i live near Detroit. This is exciting.
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I'm always heartened by stories such as these. It shows that individuals left to their own devices will naturally come together peacefully to make the world a better place wherever and however they can.
Eventually, somebody will come along and force that guy peacefully planting his garden off that land, which will be sad but not tragic because this is nothing new. Invaders and ruffians of all sorts have and will continue to exist. Yet, time after time we rebuild what was broken, and seek to better our surroundings where-ever we find ourselves.
That guy choosing to plant his garden in the face of the knowledge that what is rightfully his will eventually be stripped from him, and doing it anyway, is the true hero of humanity.
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Only about 40% had been recorded in the city's assessor's office, a local expert has estimated.
I've heard it's a huge mess down there, and nobody know who owns what. You can't record it because they can't identify who the last owner was. Plus you'd be subjecting yourself to the onerous taxes.
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The state can (and most likely will) issue a decree that all property rights expire after a certain date unless back-taxes have been paid and then the land is auctioned off.
The state is waiting to see if they can collect some revenue and, quite frankly, they don't give a fuck about the land being abandoned until they actually have someone who really wants it.
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They don't expire; the land is seized to pay for the back taxes. The government will then keep the surplus proceeds (if there are any) for a period if they do not know the current, legal owner.
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You could probably go down there and "repossess" land fairly easily, but the instant you have something nice, people will show up looking to take it from you. Some of them in blue costumes. Others wearing a hoodie.
Most of the property down there hasn't been bought and bulldozed for the simple reason that there are a lot of back-taxes on the land, as well as taxes that would be demanded for each year after.
This always blows my mind. Taxes themselves are such a backwards bewildering idea to me, but to then say that you are now responsible for the taxes that somebody else didn't pay! It's just piling bullshit to absurd heights.
It's the land that owes the taxes bro. Social contract 101. ;) Shit, without the government that land wouldn't even exist. amarite?
I don't think it's fair to generalize like that. Not all people in hoodies are violent thugs. :-D