Inventive ways to catch unpermitted work

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M4gery

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LarryFine said:
If it's effectively unenforcible, why would anyone bother with the permit process?
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There are a lot of laws that are unenforceable or extremely hard to enforce, but people still follow them.

There are ways to enforce the permitting process, but those ways do not entail stomping on our Constitution. And to be honest, it bothers me when people think it's OK for the authorities to do so.

Right now there is a house on a street somewhere filled with drugs that the police know about, but they are unable to get sufficient evidence to obtain a search warrant.
 
Ravenvalor

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If you and I do not start speaking out against such nanny state practices we will all end up in chains. Read your history books. Many people given up a lot, some their lives to write books to educate you and warn you about too much government control. Try reading Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead", it is about an architect which is something you can relate to. Her other book "Atlas Shrugged" is about small (and large) business. Ayn Rand escaped from Communist Russia and knew first hand about the evils of big government. I have a neighbor from Communist China who is terrified by what she sees going on in our society today. I have another friend who's grandparents escaped from Communist Russia. Her other Grandfather was shot to death in front of her Father.
Wake Up.
 
Split Bolt

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satcom said:
Without requiring a permit to move, anyone could just pack up and leave town, without paying their bills, violating the right of someone else, to collect what is owed.
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Are you allowed to vote there? If so, you'd better start! I thought that the Berlin Wall had been torn down! VERY SCARY!!

If my municipality became communist like some I'm reading about, and my trash men were being given incentives to spy on their fellow citizens, I would be getting a knock on my door twice every week from the amount of electrical related trash I dispose of from running my business!
 
ceb58

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When I started the original thread I never imagined it would get the post and comments it has. We have gone from 480 and Larry trying out for last comic standing to some one needing to buy a new camera all the way to living in a communist country.
As to the original idea I think it is a good tool to prevent unpermitted work. Too many times on this forum has the subject came up about unlicensed persons taking away from the legitimate contractor. The chances that a legitimate contractor will pull permits and play by the rules are better than average.
I think this thread has ran it's course. Moderators please close it down.
 
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ceb58 said:
When I started the original thread I never imagined it would get the post and comments it has. We have gone from 480 and Larry trying out for last comic standing to some one needing to buy a new camera all the way to living in a communist country.
As to the original idea I think it is a good tool to prevent unpermitted work. Too many times on this forum has the subject came up about unlicensed persons taking away from the legitimate contractor. The chances that a legitimate contractor will pull permits and play by the rules are better than average.
I think this thread has ran it's course. Moderators please close it down.
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Per your wish it is done.

Roger
 
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