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To: goldworldnet who wrote (283177)12/5/2008 10:19:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793926
 
That's not quite true in New Zealand, where entities other than The Crown [aka government] own land. <Only the government owns land and if you stop paying property taxes which is only rent money, the government will evict you.>
For example, various Maori tribes owned land and continued to own it under The Treaty of Waitangi. That has caused no end of problems as the relative positions of The Crown and Maori have been disputed over the centuries over just what the treaty meant.

Maoris quite reasonably claim their land, forests, fisheries, chattels and perhaps spectrum rights and other ownership were agreed to remain with them while The Crown acquired the right to buy land [which hadn't already been sold] and become sovereign over the Dominion. Some tribes, such as Tuhoe, did not sign, so there's a reasonable question over their national position in the hybrid which resulted.

But yes, in general what you say is true. We are tenants in fee simple of our land in Auckland. The government has eminent domain and can take over under the Public Works Act and in other ways. Not to mention forcing property taxes on an annual basis. Or, they can simply change the law and take the lot for no payment [though getting that through parliament would take a major ideological shift in the public's attitudes].

A similar situation seems to exist in the USA with some tribes retaining ownership of land from centuries ago.

Calling the situation "freedom" is a stretch.

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