To whom it may concern,
I
oppose this act on many levels, but to save you from the philosophical
failings of such illegal acts will simply leave it all at this:
1.
John Locke and later the 18th Century Enlightenment was about the idea
of individual sovereignty: Life, Liberty and Estate defined by the
individual and only the individual. Government, groups, churches, and
others had no legal right to re-define those intrinsic living
attributes. No more right to do so than I would have the right to enter
my neighbors home and throw away his china, simply because the rest of
us neighbors got together and voted it to the trash heap. Our
government requires an incredibly powerful argument to take someone
else's property, read the 4th amendment; secure in person, papers and
effects.
2. Defining someone's property is a direct assault on
their Estate and the value that individual creates inside it.
Understand, that only the individual has the right to define his
property's value.
3. Assigning a value to someone else's
property, for any reason, especially a political one, is a crime against
individualism and a theft of that property. By sovereign nation
standards, it is an act of war.
4. Theft of property is the reclassification of someone else's efforts, a defining of someone else's work.
5.
If the person themselves is not making this definition of worth, then
the very nature of the defining it by an outside party is a devaluation
of that work.
6. Any devaluation of someone else's efforts to
create wealth for the sake of their own Estates (to own things) is
slavery, because whom makes the definition defines the actual work that
the individual must do in order to obtain things.
7. The point
of our government was to avoid just these sort of ideals, founded in
protecting individualism by limiting the roll of government. We even included a bill of rights to ensure this.
By
devaluing my property you are saying that your idea of property is
better than mine and one is left with the question of simply whom do
these people think they are to believe themselves, their ideas of
ownership, better than mine? Especially since the word from the pulpits
is the cry of equality, that we a 'free people', 'equal'. But yet,
almost every act passed in accordance with things that value other
peoples property or incomes are far, from the equality that we hear
politicians cry.
So no, I'm adamantly against a group of legislators defining my value and the value of the things I own for their own ends.
and I didn't even get into the 'right' to pollute...most likely wasted if I did.
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