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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (37152)	6/25/2005 4:10:32 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"You disagree with his premises?" Which ones? This? "back before this country became a fascist, totalitarian state..." Or were you referring to his premise that it is impossible to call something "just compensation" if it is not adequate to induce a voluntary sale? He's arguing, first of all, that eminent domain powers shouldn't exist at all, which is a rather extreme position. Second, he is arguing that the idea of eminent domain powers of government are a fairly recent creation of what he labels our "fascist, totalitarian state", which is both ignorant and fallacious.