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Re:When London’s Dragons Ruled Before Skyscrapers by jdpedrie on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:53PM (#18888375)
There is no contradiction in wanting a small federal government and being in favor of local governments making rules to better the daily life of citizens, or accomplish any other goal. It’s well in line with the concept of subsidiarity, a hallmark of most strands of conservatism.
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Re:When London’s Dragons Ruled Before Skyscrapers by ucaetano on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:56PM (#18888394)
Not when you want this:

> authentically free markets

Heavily regulating land markets is as far away from a free market as you can be.

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Re:When London’s Dragons Ruled Before Skyscrapers by tom_ on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:56PM (#18889008)
It's not quite the same, but Georgists consider land, in general, and not entirely without reason, as a special case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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