I'm a Realtor and I support great schools. I also like paved roads, regular trash pickup, clean water to drink and an effective waste water treatment system. I like local and state parks, libraries, and a professional public safety sector with superbly trained and equipped cops and firefighters. Does that make me an opponent of private property rights? Not at all. It makes me understand that I don't stand alone. I am part of a larger community than just me and my family. The community taxes itself to support the schools, roads, cops, and other services that make life richer for all of us. Private property doesn't exist in a vacuum. I am proud to be a Realtor, a community volunteer, and a taxpayer...and a supporter of property rights.

I'm fully on board with Mike on how government can squash innovation and new ideas. I think modern zoning and the creation of vast residential neighborhoods with no retail, entertainment or commercial services has done more to ruin cities than any amount of "factory next to house" imaginary problems. We're much too creative and inventive as a people to fit into the standard boxes too many government departments want to put us in.