Fauquier (/fɔːˈkɪər/)
County, Virginia has become a new battleground against the sprawl of
Washington-style government bullying. Under the guise of business
zoning authority, Fauquier is now depriving an agricultural community of
its liberty to live the farm life when a little commerce is, and even
is not, involved.
The county, you see, wants to regulate and fine farm residents on grounds of holding pumpkin carvings, birthday parties for little girls, and Boy Scout jamborees.
Fauquier County is an agricultural community in the beautiful Piedmont mountain region about an hour west of Washington. Its motto is "life as it should be." To some county bureaucrats and officials, that means "life as we tell you how it should be."
The growth of the federal government, along with its bureaucratic mentality, has sprawled into Northern Virginia, and mostly up to now, just shy of Fauquier. In once-bucolic Loudon County to the north of Washington, where family farms stood just 15 years ago, now stand high-rise offices of businesses with government contracts, lobbyists, and others feeding at the government trough. Loudon, the fastest-growing county in America, is not the free market at work. It's a concrete and steel metropolis built directly and indirectly on taxpayer money flowing into and out of Washington.
Virginia is divided now -- in many ways -- between the Washington suburbs of Northern Virginia and the rest of the state. With the sprawl of big government comes the bureaucratic mentality that what's yours is theirs to regulate, control, and dictate.
The county, you see, wants to regulate and fine farm residents on grounds of holding pumpkin carvings, birthday parties for little girls, and Boy Scout jamborees.
Fauquier County is an agricultural community in the beautiful Piedmont mountain region about an hour west of Washington. Its motto is "life as it should be." To some county bureaucrats and officials, that means "life as we tell you how it should be."
The growth of the federal government, along with its bureaucratic mentality, has sprawled into Northern Virginia, and mostly up to now, just shy of Fauquier. In once-bucolic Loudon County to the north of Washington, where family farms stood just 15 years ago, now stand high-rise offices of businesses with government contracts, lobbyists, and others feeding at the government trough. Loudon, the fastest-growing county in America, is not the free market at work. It's a concrete and steel metropolis built directly and indirectly on taxpayer money flowing into and out of Washington.
Virginia is divided now -- in many ways -- between the Washington suburbs of Northern Virginia and the rest of the state. With the sprawl of big government comes the bureaucratic mentality that what's yours is theirs to regulate, control, and dictate.
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