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To: Publius Valerius
Tough titties for the locality and Dow chemical.

If I buy a home, and pay my taxes, it is mine. If my home is where I was first married, my children grew up, and where I plan on retiring, it is my business as long as I own it, and pay taxes.

If Dow chemical wants it so bad they will pay $10,000,000 then it's on them. It's my property, not Dow's, not city halls.

298 posted on 06/23/2005 8:58:38 AM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12

But that's not the way reality works. The city and the state have an interest in seeing that factory built.

My point is not to argue the merits of whether the taking is right or wrong--my point is that I don't expect states to step up and enact tougher laws. Why would they? It would be against the interest of the state, and, indeed, against the interests of the citizens of the state as a whole.


308 posted on 06/23/2005 9:00:34 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: dogbyte12

You only rent that property from the government now. You live there at their pleasure.


483 posted on 06/23/2005 10:10:46 AM PDT by myself6 (Nazi = socialist , democrat=socialist , therefore democrat = Nazi)
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