One's Auto is Now Considered One's Home (and Governments Don't Like That)

So once upon a time one could take a horse and tent, ox and wagon or any other combination and make a way across a continent, stake out a claim and earn a living and if lucky, raise a family.

These days, it is not as simple as as a country we have "public" space and "private" space (although some legislation, even parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which states there are "public" laws that have to be followed on "private" space .. a business .. where the right of "freedom of association" (See Walter E. Williams defense of this natural right) was "disappeared" like so many other natural rights that God gave us .. but I digress.

So today's news from Anti-Media is controversial as the government can't quite tax people parked on "public" streets like they do if people "own" property. (Try not paying property taxes on something you "own" and see how long it takes for government to take it away)

The story centers around a working individual who was having difficulty making rent payments and proceeded to utilize his vehicle for a homestead:

".. skyrocketing rent had become unmanageable for the now-58-year-old man, and he was evicted in March 2014. But it wasn’t until 2016 — while he was employed at CenturyLink Field, cleaning after Seattle Sounders games — that his 2000 GMC pickup was snatched and impounded by authorities for violating an ordinance against parking in one spot for longer than seventy-two hours

At the time, Long had been unable to amass the funds needed to repair the stalled vehicle, his de facto home, so its impoundment under ransom of exorbitant fines left the man even worse off than before — particularly, as several tools he required to work manual labor jobs remained inside. He sued the city for the return of the truck, but Seattle Municipal Court ruled against Long in May 2017 — so he filed an appeal, on which Shaffer ruled Friday, additionally ordering the city to refund all payments he had thus far made..."

It is an interesting conundrum as the unintentional consequences of "good" intentions (i.e. public roads, public greenspace, public land (like millions of acres in western US and Alaska)).