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Re: The down side to new rail construction |
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Posted by J trainloco on Sun Apr 15 20:16:37 2012, in response to Re: The down side to new rail construction, posted by SLRT on Sun Apr 15 18:04:25 2012. There is a difference between the government,with the power of the purse and eminent domain,picking and choosing winners and losers by building public works that advantage some people and disadvantage others.There will always be winners and losers, unfortunately. The government has to build things, and as a result, certain people will gain, and certain people will lose. When NYC built waste transfer stations, people everywhere gained (more efficient trash removal), but people immediately next to those facilities lost (value to their properties). I don't think that the government needs to compensate people next to the waste facility for that personal loss. Equally distrubuting financial wealth to everyone... sounds like a communist idea. I thought you were a conservative ;) And if you create a product that makes mine obsolete,and you've infringed my patents in order to do so,and/or you've used monopolistic practices to destroy competitors, you'd best believe I can be compensated. But what if neither of those conditions are met? For example, to Google and Apple owe RIM compensation because they've effectively destroyed their share of the smartphone market? |
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