[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

[joanna]

I don't think anyone has a problem with eminent domain. I think the 
problem has to do with the precedent set by this case with using eminent 
domain to justify increasing profit for capital. In other words, the 
case for "public benefit" is getting thinner and thinner.

Joanna

andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>No. I'm saying in practice most eminent domain is
>pretty neutral stuff, it's not destroying whole
>neighborhoods for factory construction (we should be
>so lucky), highways or Wal-Marts. It's running
>pipelines through remote farmland, getting easements,
>and the like. You don't really want to block all use
>of ED as  practical matter. Nathan may be talking
>democratic theory. I'm talking practical economics
>mainly (as well). jks
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