Property Rights in A Market Economy

[parsley]

"The mineral taxes the Saskatchewan Government applied in the '50's certainly netted them a whack of mineral titles, didn't it, as farmers, one by one, simply could not pay the taxed fee. Consequently,the Government took possession of countless mineral titles from family farms."

No Tommy there, checking. Your words, I'm afraid.


"Landowners in Saskatchewan have yet to find a penicillin that will cure us from Tommy Douglas' taxing visits in the middle of the dark nights of the fifties."

I was actually being facetious and referring to the Wheat Board here, you should have caught that one, lol, and we've never gotten over the taxing sections of 46(d) and 14(b) of the Wheat Board Act, which he worked so hard, to have passed.

I did a 2 second google search, there are thousands of pages:

http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/McGrane.pdf

which says:

"The second dispute was the threat of the federal government to disallow the Farm Security Act and the Mineral Taxation Act which had imposed a levy on hitherto tax-free subsurface mineral rights."
Interesting site, btw.

If I have time, I will drag out the old taxes. With the mineral tax on them. And post them on Parsley's Notebook.

In the meantime, go read my Editorial piece, mustardman, but stay well back at breakfast because the smell of piddled pants is not conducive to generating an apppetite, and it looks like you have a hearty appetitie for poking sticks at the poor helpless defenseless female contributers on AV. LOL, Your pars, as always.

[parsley]

vagabonddreamer, I am of different sense, albeit perhaps not common.

I have faith in man to evolve into responsible beings, much as children eventually evolve into adults. Expect the best and you get the best.

But more important, if you have someone slapping your ass, well that may be rather fun, but I digress, 24/7, you do not learn by doing, or learn from experience, or change with pride. You need a bloody character nanny named Ms.Regulation.

A perfect example is a father who will not stand back and let his son try!

Families learn by doing and observing.

So do communities. So do nations. It's called evolving and having trust in individuals to believe in themselves and in others.

The less you are regulated the better the response because you have no one to thank or blame but yourself. It forces transparency and fosters trust.

Obviously you have not raised six children.lol

I am not saying a society can be 100% regulation free, but I am saying he less the regulation, the better the society. Rules become so ridiculous, all rules lose meaning. Parsley

[parsley]

mustardman,
Rush is not my type, but Rex from Cross Country Checkup could be, as would any woman worth her height in centimeters agree, which I'm utterly surprised you did not predict. pars.

[parsley]

vagabond, There is no need to apologize, I try to be clear, and forthright, and mince few words, and revise misconception. That being said, I can put it all aside and go for an amicable beer when we have finished slashing ideas on AV . And hopefully, all of us can do the same. Pars

[vagabonddreamer]

Parsley??? wow...wistful musings from the commodity-hottie...lol...and people accuse ME of being a "tangled cowboy poet"...is that romanticism rearing in fawn-eyed wonder??

i have absolutely NO arguments with your concepts of the ideal "state"...

evolvement usually entails a significant period of time...how many generations of "learning" will it take to get there...and how many generations will be sacrificed to attain it??

if it could be done...tomorrow...then lets do it...

the theatre of my mind...is REELING with the image of you enjoying a good ass slapping...but i digress as well...BOY do i digress...lol...vs

[parsley]

I must admit my lying lips were being boldly facetious about Murphy, google him. If you would believe that one, you would believe anything, and I mean anything, or else you simply do not know the first thing about women. I'm not quite sure which is worse; probably the latter. LOL Pars

[checking]

Only a question Parsley. I did not intend to pee in your breakfast cornflakes such that it would raise your ire. TOM4CWB says your quote is trust, but verify. ------------------- I tend to read additional posts, and I do not speak or write in riddles, so when cropduster commented March 21, 2009 9:53 on "mineral taxes", and you replied, "Landowners in Saskatchewan and Tommy Douglas and his taxing visits in the fifties", I did not realize you had moved on to the CWB. Your words Parsley, I'm afraid.

[checking]

There was soldier settlement land that the federal crown sold to returning WW11 veterans, in Saskatchewan, and the crown allowed the minerals to go with the land. I had an uncle who bought a quarter section of soldier settlement land in 1941, but since he had not served, the minerals were strip off the title by the crown. Soldier settlement land - minerals, now handled by Veterans Affair became bogged down in a court battle between the government of Alberta and the Government of Canada several years back, and the Saskatchewan government was waiting on the outcome of the decision. In event the Feds lost the case they were not tendering their Crown minerals for lease. There was some talk that the Feds expected they would need to transfer these types of minerals to settle outstanding native land claims.

[tower]

Some years ago I got a copy of the rules for hockey from the early years of the last century. One Page.

Now the book goes on and on, and you pretty much have to be a lawyer or multi year experienced in reffing to come to a course of action when you see an infraction on the ice. So take it easy on any young kid that is out there trying to help the game. The point is that society was like that too. An eye for an eye.....

It isn't average people who have no control or the ability to make good decisions. At least in my experience it is only the odd helmut head who is ticked off at the world, or drug addicted, whatever your drug, that looks for shortcuts or ways around the standards of society and it is for them that the regulations get bigger each year.

One of the drugs is definitely power and any of our governments and their ideals can be twisted by the money and power available at the heights.

Property rights will be subverted by corruption as much as any other right if it serves someones interest to do so. But rights that could resist government good intentions could also be a pain.

[pilpilsner]

Dont degrade drug addicts by comparing them to power hungry officials.

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[parsley]

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