For the second time this year, a Florida appellate court has ruled against environmentalists fighting to enact a widely supported local clean water measure. The Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that although 83% of voters in Titusville approved a 2022 initiative establishing the right to clean water, the city in Brevard County couldn’t […]
(9)(a) A local government regulation, ordinance, code, rule, comprehensive plan, charter, or any other provision of law may not recognize or grant any legal rights to a plant, an animal, a body of water, or any other part of the natural environment that is not a person or political subdivision as defined in s. 1.01(8) or grant such person or political subdivision any specific rights relating to the natural environment not otherwise authorized in general law or specifically granted in the State Constitution
This is exactly what they mean by Small Government. It’s “Small” when being bigger would mean regulations that are inconvenient to corporations, but they’ll conveniently forget that when it comes to stripping people’s individual rights.
Small government: “The government isn’t allowed to stop the pollution of all your drinking water.”
Also Small Government: “It’s illegal for an individual to own more than 6 sex toys in the state of Texas.”
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This is “small government” folks.
This is exactly what they mean by Small Government. It’s “Small” when being bigger would mean regulations that are inconvenient to corporations, but they’ll conveniently forget that when it comes to stripping people’s individual rights.
Small government: “The government isn’t allowed to stop the pollution of all your drinking water.”
Also Small Government: “It’s illegal for an individual to own more than 6 sex toys in the state of Texas.”