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Nothing gets to statists so much as freedom. People living life as they please without first getting the permission of busy-body government officials just gets their blood boiling. Filled with descriptors dripping with scorn, TIME documents how Colorado liberals struggle to deal with a growing scourge: nice homes.

As bloated homes and McMansions continue to sprout up across the country, Boulder, Colorado, may have come up with a lucrative approach to contain what detractors call the plague of Garage Mahals and Big-Hair Houses. At a July 10 meeting, where more than 70 citizens spoke, Boulder county commissioners preliminarily approved a system of development rights transfers that would extract mega-bucks from builders of mega-homes.

Not satisfied merely loading the first paragraph with childish scorn, the rest of the article is full of hysteric attempts at insulting nice houses, which comes across about as well as trying to insult someone for being too smart. The author, apparently still disheartened by the fall of the Soviet Union, then praises Boulder’s assault on freedom as an “elegant and egalitarian” solution to the problem of prosperity.