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Trump: Eminent Domain "Wonderful"

Posted by sdesapio 9 years, 6 months ago to Politics
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From the article: "I think eminent domain is wonderful if you're building a highway and you need to build as an example, a highway, and you're going to be blocked by a hold-out or in some cases, it's a hold-out, just so you understand, nobody knows this better than I do, I built a lot of buildings in Manhattan and you'll have 12 sites and you'll get 11 and you'll have the one hold-out and you end up building around them and everything else," Trump said Tuesday on Special Report.

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  • Posted by ewv 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People who care about private property rights and the brutality of eminent domain care.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago
    Like I've been saying that indivdual is a straight up hands down left wing socialist corporatist fascist and if he were a girl would give Carly a run for the Democratic Nomination.
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  • Posted by Danno 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Talk to the black jazz community that was destroyed by the expressway in Milwaukee. Never recovered. German politicians were the cause of the destruction of Milwaukee with welfare etc to groom dependent votes.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Corporatism is gathering together in a group to invest time, money, effort in some goa to make some personal gain.

    Crapitalism is something like the 'facilities', the 'loo' the WC. Where everyone's involved in odiforous effluent ejecta or giving back.

    Congress is a combination of the two.

    Government is the result

    It doesn't get that bad until After the talking head spin shows and vomitus ejecta is added to the mix.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, I'm with you. It's a bastardization of capitalism. I've heard it called "corporatism" or "crapitalism". I don't agree with it and don't take part in it.
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    Posted by ewv 9 years, 6 months ago
    The thread could have been entitled "Donald Trump: anti-private property rights corporate fascist".

    In the interview by Fox on eminent domain and his previous support for the infamous Kelo decision, Trump made an even more sweeping assertion than the one quoted above where he boasts that he has used eminent domain to seize property himself: "So eminent domain when it comes to jobs, roads, the public good, I think it's a wonderful thing, I'll be honest with you." @2:50min in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...

    Trump is trying to convey the impression that eminent domain is only used against people who hold out for more money they don't deserve in defying a recognized "public good" and that they are paid many times the market value of their property. Value to whom? He dismisses as irrelevant those who he claims "rarely" say "I love my house". Not only are people not 'overpaid' in this unscrupulous scheme of statist collectivism they are forced to abjectly submit , abandon their personal values, and then leave at their own expense in both money and personal disruption of their lives. None of this matters to a tyrant like Trump. This alleged "savior", who is being supported as the 'man on the white horse' is only an ugly little Pragmatist with a big mouth, opposed to principle on principle and who would ruthlessly push us into deeper statism under his narcissist "deals".

    The first time I was interviewed for a radio program on the topic of eminent domain and the National Park Service years ago I was asked, but don't they pay you a fair price? The immediate response that came to me naturally was, "There is no such thing as a fair price for something that is not for sale". But not in Donald Trump's world where the rights and values of the individual don't matter. He's the fascist who knows how to "get things done", and don't dare ask, "get what things done at whose expense?"

    See also previous gg posts:

    "The Widow and Eminent Domain" http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...

    "More on Trump eminent domain anti-private property rights" https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
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  • Posted by conscious1978 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    +1

    The only paving done by eminent domain these days is on the road to anarchy. 'Lords and nobles' are vying for the most powerful gang.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    no, abaco. That does not mean Capitalism and bsiness are immoral. It just means govt mixed up with business is. Govt is essential. it is not benevolent and it WILL encroach, unless you "madam, can keep it" [liberty]
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hucksters.
    That description should be mandatory on all political debates broadcast, all political advertising, and all public discussion of every executive order, supreme court decision, and all legislation.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 6 months ago
    Yeah. He's used it. Well, he paid officials to use it so he can make more money. Probably, as far as the bottom line is concerned, it's a great investment. However...it's not really what the founding fathers had in mind, is it?
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A key point, kh, relatively recent and unknown to most. I agree that eminent domain even in its original meaning can be argued against, but the recent expanded meaning to include private developments that by some convoluted logic benefit "the public as a whole" rather than the developers and at best a small surrounding "public" are clearly wrong. I believe I've read or heard that Coney Island is currently a target for "condemnation", as its owners do not want to sell, but some private developers think they can revitalize it, especially if they can get it cheap through eminent domain.

    Trump is in no way an admirable, successful businessman. He is and always has been the ultimate crony capitalist, and since he entered the "R" field has been #1 on my "anybody but" list, moving Jeb Bush to a distant 2nd...
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  • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 6 months ago
    It is clear that Trump likes to use eminent domain as a crony capitalist tool. I am not in favor of eminent domain, however it is important to understand that your property rights are not unlimited. For instance, if they were unlimited then the owners of a transcontinental railroad could force everyone to travel all the way to the coasts, jump on a boat around their track to go north or south of their track. This would be absurd and perversion of property rights. The railroad's property rights are due to having improved the land by putting a railroad on it. Those property rights do not extend to activities that do not reasonable interfere with the company's right to operate a railroad and cannot be used to impede reasonable travel across the tracks, which people were able to do before the railroad was built.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago
    the original foundation for eminent domain was "public works" which does not include private developers or companies or individuals who want to build.
    Classic interests that are public have been public thoroughfares. (disclaimer: not supporting the use of this) but Trump is talking about a crony relationship for his personal gain.
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