California couple ordered to pay $600,000 for uprooting a 180-year-old tree

I imagine this will be the soup-of-the-day for conservative pundits.

While there are valid gripes about how “people should be allowed to do what they want on their own property” I think we can all agree nobody should be allowed to pollute the groundwater for an entire community, or use their backyard to burn waste oil. So then the real debate is “where does one draw the line?” California decided where they wanted to draw the line, and these folks crossed that line.

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