Posted 7/8/25 by Cindy Alia
From time to time a guest writer will be asked to provide an article for a blog post for the CAPR website.
CAPR does not endorse candidates, but we do rate them based on their opinions, records, and ability to offer pragmatic solutions to benefit life, liberty, and property rights.
This article is written by Logan Evans, candidate for Kent City Council, position 6. I wanted to know what Logan thinks about private property rights and Logan kindly provided this description:
The Struggle for Space
Logan Evans, 7/8/25
The history of humanity is a struggle for space. Space, in whatever myriad forms it has taken, is a means of generating wealth for oneself and family, and that wealth, that legacy of family and self, translates into the ability of one to survive and grow in this world. When there are few people and much space, the ability to develop and embrace the path one decides is easy. It is simple enough to set out and claim the Virgin Earth.
The issues arise when, eventually, we meet other people. Even within one’s own community and family, tension over land, over space, can arise. Often enough, this ended in incredible violence, but the glory and wisdom of our ancestors, over the generations, was to set amongst themselves and peers they respected a concept of property, owned by the individual and the family, that allowed them to prosper, and grow. The greatest of Kings and other rulers, whether they be elected or born-in-purple, were famed for the respect and prosperity they gave to the lands of their people, allowing them to grow from strength to strength. The most evil were hated for stripping the lands and rights of the people, denying them that which would be their most secure asset.
The Japanese have a saying, “The Land is God”, and in our own context, as Americans, we can appreciate that without private property, there is nothing. There is no safety, no freedom, no ability to generate one's own wealth. Instead, the system will solely benefit the most powerful, and whatever class of slavish retainers they surround themselves with, while we are reduced to serfdom. No country, no people, can survive or prosper if they have no property to call their own.
Frankly, the entire concept of property tax on primary residencies is an archaic and offensive hold-over from our Anglo-heritage. It made some sense in a time when only the most wealthy paid any tax on their land, and where voting rights were connected to this extraordinary (and costly) privilege. In the modern era, instead, it is a Damocles sword that hangs over all of our heads. Will we be priced out? Can our children afford to inherit this property? Will growth force me out? Will making my home more beautiful, more liveable, a place of legacy, be our economic ruin? These are questions none of us should have to answer, yet all of us are compelled to.
I stand against this. I stand for freedom, prosperity, and the strength of families rooted in the Land. The dream of the individual to start a business, the urbanite to reside in a dense and beautiful condominium, and the sprawling allure of our rural spaces. The great battle of our time is the same as always, a war for space, and we will win and have a beautiful, liveable city, and assets which we can pass down the ages, or we will have nothing.
For Land and Freedom! For Family and Future! Hurrah!
July 8, 2025