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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 conscious1978 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Term, by your 'logic', we should respect and promote anyone that is acting unethically, but not illegally, because they are highlighting the unethical behavior for public debate. Uhhh...No!

    Trump's unprincipled, unethical behavior is not a badge of courage on his part "to bring the subject up for debate". He doesn't want to change eminent domain!! He thinks "it's a wonderful thing"!

    Don't kid yourself, Trump has no principled respect for individual rights.
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  • Posted by MarkHunter 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He has tried to use eminent domain, three times. Fortunately he failed in the courts. (Of course that doesn't excuse him for trying, or disrupting the lives of those who had to take him to court.)

    But again, his plans for reigning in gun control and other Leftist causes outweigh this major mistake.
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  • Posted by Witt84z 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. He will make do some things we don't like however IMHO the good will well out way the bad. I'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water over eminent domain. He is still a candidate I will consider.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Christie is an ass that missed his calling as a husband on Housewives of New Jersey.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree totally with your points 3,4,5. Not so much with how Sarah Palin is going to straighten him out- she could use a bit of straightening out actually.

    Trump has my vote. He is so much more honest than all the rest of the candidates (perhaps Rand Paul would be my first choice, but he isnt going to make it to the general election) its refreshing and we need 4 years of that.

    Ben Carson is too quiet and I doubt he will make it to the general election.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The media hates Trump, so I dont even listen to them. They hate him because he says the emperor has no clothes, and doesnt care what people call him. We need that.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Is Obama what the founding fathers had in mind? We have distorted the constitution so much its a real shame. Plus Obama is a spendthrift socialist and muslim- not what we need.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can see you hate Trump, and you are entitled. BUT, he is not constrained by political correctness, he is a strong businessman who can stand up to other countries like our stupid and incompetent Obama cannot, and I really think he will NOT do deficit spending and maybe, just maybe, stop the slide of the dollar. 4 years of this would be fine with me, so he has my vote. Pretty much whatever he does that you might not like wouldnt be allowed by congress anyway, so I dont see the harm.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly. But the government gives him the power to just take it from landowners. Its the fault of the government, not the people who use the law to their benefit. One could say Trump should just stand on principle and NOT use eminent domain IF he was a libertarian or Objectivist. But he isnt either of those. He will be good for the country for the next 4 years however I think, as he will bring these issues up to public scrutiny and WE can decide- just like Snowden did. Thats why the establishment hates Trump.
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    Posted by MarkHunter 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Most people on GGO are Republicans In Name Only. Republican is better than Democrat only until something better comes along.

    Trump’s policies aren’t left wing. Leftists love open immigration more than anything, Trump says he would curtail immigration. Leftists love regulations, Trump says he would cancel 90% of them. Lefts love gun control, he supports the 2nd amendment. One could go on.

    Trump may be a plutocrat but he’s going against the plutocrat Establishment. He’s lost a lot of plutocrat friends for doing it. That he’s had to bribe politicians to get something built is the fault of government. (Edison wined and dine politicians in order to get them to approve his building electric power stations.)

    Trump is a producer rather than a looter. It’s too bad he tried to use eminent domain three times. (He failed in the courts each time, but still he tried.) His virtues more than counterbalance this.

    He speaks forthrightly. He’s less politically correct than any other candidate.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ayn Rand was right in that once you dont stick up for the concept of private property, it will slip away slowly over time as you have no high ground to stand on any more. Now we are forced to buy health insurance from private companies, OR get taxed by the government.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Its no better use of eminent domain for "public works". Its still stealing from private individuals, just papered over with some sort of social "good".
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He does what WE allow him to do as a society. The blame really goes to us. I can WANT people to support me , but if I get it through government payments its the fault of the government for allowing it to happen.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Eniment domain should be abolished. Governments are the worst offenders of course.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No one says Trump is a libertarian or Objectivist, or even close to it. He is a businessman, which our country needs right now. He cant get anything through without the congress, which will dampen any really radical desires.

    What he WILL do is bring politically incorrect subjects up for public discussion that are now hidden, which is a hell of a lot better than a Hillary who will lurk in the basement with her secret emails and let us find out what she did after she is out of office.

    When have we heard a politician say that eminent domain is a tool to take private property away? They just do it, and be quiet. Now it brings the subject up for debate- not unlike what Snowden did.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not looking for 'at least' that's another way of saying not 'as evil.' It's a Nuremberg Defense. Admitting guilt and asking for clemency. Is it honesty or arrogance? He just admitted to being a RINO. You need to learn BOHICA when you get what you asked for the meaning will be painfully obvious
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago
    At least he admits he plays by the rules that our government sets. There shouldnt be eminent domain at all, and if there wasnt, no one could use it to become richer. Cities are the worst offenders actually. I like that Trump is honest about this stuff. He says he buys off politicians and then expects favors- everyone knows this happens but he says he does it as long and the system permits- right out there on national TV. I want that kind of honesty on the part of our leaders so that the subject comes up and people can vote it down.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    On the negative side
    1. Republican RINO
    2. Left Wing socialist corporatist
    3. Establishment
    4. Looter
    5. your item 3. he'll say anything panderer
    6. Lightly taped - for the moment - easily erased on #5 I seen zero values in the dude except "ME."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Guess that would be called the "you get lose a patch compromise" when in reality more than one gets lost.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 9 years, 6 months ago
    Yah, I saw my husband watching that interview, (he's pro Trump), with the banner at the bottom of the TV screen: Trump: Eminent Domain "Wonderful". I told my husband that Trump was really showing his true colors.
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  • Posted by MarkHunter 9 years, 6 months ago
    The following is by Michael Stuart Kelly, referring to Trump’s recent interview with Bret Baier:

    Trump said he supported eminent domain and the Kelo decision. I do not agree with Trump on this, but ...

    1. ...

    2. Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, and these kinds of people who he is surrounding himself with are going to straighten him out over time ... ;

    3. Eminent domain is a minor issue when compared to Trump's [stand] on immigration, health care, veterans, jobs creation, foreign policy, overhauling the tax system, abolishing regulations,...;

    4. ... Trump's frank answer is an indication that we will always know where he stands (he knows this view is not popular with the people who support him); and

    5. I do not expect Trump to be perfectly aligned with all my values. He's got the big ones nailed, though.

    [All] that makes this not a deal-killer to me. ...
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  • Posted by Witt84z 9 years, 6 months ago
    I understand his frustration. However, eminent domain is wrong. He and his project team may be required to go out of their way or pay more than is fair for the land but that does not justify eminent domain. I will say to Donald Trump, try harder to get the last hold out. Where there is a will there is a way. Everything is for sale for the right compensation.
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  • Posted by ewv 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People in business are not automatically statists. The notion that economic interests determine political philosophy is a Marxist argument. Trump is a Pragmatist with the usual collectivist and progressive statist assumptions.
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