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To: itsahoot
I didn't say it doesn't have potential for abuse,

Abuse is inherent to eminent domain POWERS.

There would be no highways, railroads, electrical grids, hydro electric power, sewers...At least not as we know those things today.

Equine feces. Think "options market." It actually improves project planning. For example, one could negotiate an option for a very modest fee that would have a second tier if a corridor were completed, and not before. That would get neighbors working out the details. Things would be different, but it doesn't mean they couldn't work. For example, the bulk of the roads in much of California were first built as private toll roads. Those rights of way were assembled without eminent domain.

187 posted on 01/21/2016 8:14:32 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

the question has been decided

you can bitch and moan but absent a reversal the eminent domain stands as is


188 posted on 01/21/2016 8:17:30 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Carry_Okie
Equine feces. Think "options market." It actually improves project planning. For example, one could negotiate an option for a very modest f

You have no clue. We could go back to the days where every property owner erected toll gates to their property, or you neighbor upstream diverted your water until you dried up and sold to him. Good grief individuals can be just as crooked as corporations and governments, that is why we are supposed to be a nation of laws not men.

191 posted on 01/21/2016 9:31:49 AM PST by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. Wonder why is he winning?)
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