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Originally Posted by aceventura3
There is no need for the government to hold title to the land.
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So you're suggesting we let someone else own it, but not be allowed to do anything with it. Who's going to sign on for that deal?
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Even if the land was privately owned, the government could mandate how the land is used.
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Only to a point. Private property is after all private property. If you had the option to buy 3 acres with the knowledge that you weren't allowed to do anything at all to it, why would you buy it? Plus, you're assuming the property owners will follow the governmental mandate. Get back to me when all factories voluntarily comply with EPA regulations, hmm?
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They could even mandate that the public have access to it by mandating public roads through the property or just taking some of the land to build roads.
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So it's OK to sell the land to someone, not allowing them to do anything to it, and then steal some of it back in order to make a road? And you don't find that move against private property rights "very disturbing?"
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I find the move against private property rights very disturbing, don't you?
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I don't want to own Yosemite. I certainly don't want a timber company to own it. I bet they'd just love to chop the sequoias down. I'm just fine with the government owning property. The National Park Service has held land in trust for the people so that the people could enjoy that land. Private corporations will not do that. Private individuals do not generally have the resource ability to do that. Your argument's logical extension is that I should be able to buy the White House, because otherwise it's a move against private property rights.
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And, are you o.k. with what Obama is doing, by accelerating the trend against private property rights? Isn't it shameful for him to use his bully pulpit to disparage those (i.e., bond holders) fighting for their rights, when their rights under the law conflict with what he wants?
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Well, the only people who believe he's doing that are the ones parroting Limbaugh, the lunatic drug addict who wants Obama to fail. Find a new source.