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Do liberal judges favor wealthy developers over regular people?

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Message 23 of 109 (260649)
11-17-2005 5:03 PM 		Reply to: Message 21 by randman
11-17-2005 3:56 PM

Re: it's socialism, third way crap
But you are correct that cooperating with private developers in conjunction with the state is not pure socialism. It is more properly fascism, but imo, fascism is a form of socialism to a degree.
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If socialism is where the government takes control of the means of production, and fascism is where those who own the means of production take control of the government; well, is that a fundamental divide between those extremes? Or is that six of one and a half-dozen of the other?
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11-18-2005 12:56 AM 		Reply to: Message 35 by randman
11-18-2005 12:50 AM

Re: randman once again mispreresents what someone says.
The liberals say it's right, and the conservatives say it's not right to take from the common man and give to the rich just so the local government can get more tax money.
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Well, they didn't take it. They paid him for it.
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11-18-2005 2:25 PM

Wouldn't the reverse finding in Kelo have opened the door for people to sue the Federal government for years and years of public appropriation of private land that was turned over for public use?
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For instance, this nation's railroads run through land taken via eminent domain and turned over to companies like Union Pacific. Allowing people to sue for that land back could cripple our shipping industry.
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There would be chaos. I'm not confident that this is a liberal/conservative issue; I think the justices were concerned about the consequences of their rulings.
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11-18-2005 4:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 61 by Chiroptera
11-18-2005 4:10 PM

Great point, thanks.
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