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To: tacticalogic
Maybe you'd have better luck with it on a property rights thread.

Do you mean the one's where I generally defend government's right to exercise "eminent domain" to establish public rights-of-way for transportation? I have no problem with that at all so long as "just compensation" is provided. It helps minimize the cost to the taxpayer for such projects. Although the system is subject to abuse, it requires vigilance to assure "fairness", not abolition.

166 posted on 09/15/2002 10:40:35 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
Do you mean the one's where I generally defend government's right to exercise "eminent domain" to establish public rights-of-way for transportation?

Actually, I was thinking more of the ones where we complain about the government telling people they can't build homes on their own property because some endangered species might want to live there some day, or making businesses pay for testing their discharge water for the presence of chemicals they don't even use.

173 posted on 09/15/2002 10:47:24 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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