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[quote:zacksavage:MV8zMTAwNDUwXzU1MjQ4NjQxXzI4Rjg0MzdD] [quote:Bodiless:MV8zMTAwNDUwXzU1MjQ3Njg3XzM1NERCOTEz] Zack, I can appreciate your viewpoint. Perhaps my perspective is just a bit longer than yours. I remember California in the late 70's. It is vastly different now--same with much of the PacNW. Utah was one of the choicest states I had ever been thru(din't stay, just drove thru) America has swelled in size four fold since then. Not just in people, but in business as well. Without eminent domain there would be no infrastructure, no nothing. Everything in life has both a good side and a bad side. I too had a "free spirit" once. Then I settled down, as they call it, and went about making the life I wanted. I dare say I have a "free spirit" now as well. The difference is I can pay for what I want, go where I want, when I want, and most importantly, how I want. [/quote] I appreciate you as a poster too Bodeless, which is why I would take the time to have an actual chat with you. I was there in the late 70's as well. El Toro and Tustin MCAS, running wild, having parties down on the beaches in Huntington, Newport,...Laguna. Unlike you, I have retained my free spirit. I work seasonally for the FEDS believe it or Not. With 6 other folk, we pack government mules and horses and ride out into the wilderness with axe and crosscut. Clear/build the trails. I now live in the caldera of a once super volcano and have a horse tank filled with 155 degree hot-springs water straight from mother Earth. I walk out my back door into about half a million acres of wilderness I left lucrative work in California for this lifestyle and I love it. Do not want to lose it, could care less about amassing wealth. There should be a place in this world for people like me. Do not want a Trump tower anywhere near it, just because HE says so. Anyway, [b]Communal[/b] eminent domain is one thing, private another. Do we really need another strip mall with starbucks and panda express? Z [/quote]
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Eminent domain is used by the government and wealthy individuals. Pipelines, casinos, stadiums, beach front property and for ransom against government for BIG $$.
In California tech billionaire Vinod Khosla bought a beachfront property in 2008 and closed the only road to get to Martins beach essentially making it private. After an eight-year legal battle Khosla said he would re-open the road if the state paid him 30 million dollars. The state has refused his offer and has not used Eminent Domain to re-claim the road, which raises the question, why isn't Eminent Domain used to take property from the wealthy?
Donald loves Eminent Domain. He explains that property owners get 3 or 4 times the value when selling their property but what he doesn't say is what profit the wealthy make from using Eminent Domain.
We live in a world of haves and have nots and apparently the haves have got much better lawyers.
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