[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 16:02:00 PDT 2005


Chuck, are you a Lockean, a believer in absolute private property rights, totally rejecting state restrictions? (I don't see how property rights could exist with state coercion.)


> Eminent domain is indefensible. The state should not have this kind of
> power over people's lives and space. I don't give a damn about the
> American fetish for private property rights, but everybody feels
> threatened when some government thinks that it has a right to do what it
> wants with a person's home.
>
> Progressives need to take a stand against any form of eminent domain.
>
> Chuck

-- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.



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