[exodus]

I wouldn't have a have a problem with State funded public water projects, Poohbah.

To: exodus
Then you're not a Libertarian, because every Libertarian I've run across says that eminent domain (required for water projects) is EE-VIL.
# 252 by Poohbah
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I'm a libertarian, Poohbah.

Eminent domain is NOT evil in itself, any more than a weapon is evil.

Eminent domain is a necessary tool of government. Corrupt use of the power would be evil.

[Poohbah]

You are the only libertarian I've run across with a supportive attitude toward emiment domain. Every other LPer I've met holds that property rights are absolute, the gubmint taking your property for public use with "fair compensation" is inherently unfair, and that they'd cheerfully write a Constitutional Amendment forbidding the practice.

And the "beneficial use" clauses of water laws in arid states would be enough to send most Libertarians I've met into apoplexy.