[lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 28 05:19:16 PST 2006


Nathan Newman wrote:


>The Institute for Justice, which you keep quoting, is in tight coordination
>with the Oregon-style regulatory takings movement, because they know the
>more tools of land management they eliminate for local governments, the more
>uncontested sprawl and high-profit development they can promote.

Except that eminent domain is more typically used to promote high-profit development than the kind of high-minded development you're talking about.

For a guy who's obsessed with actual legislation, and who works for a group that presents itself as a think-tank for progressive state legislators, you're not paying much attention to the actual legislative langauge.

Doug



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