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To: Sybeck1

What if you have to use eminent domain to build the wall? Trump would build the wall while the rest would make speeches.


8 posted on 02/03/2016 9:09:18 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Vic S
Using eminent domain to build the wall is a different thing from what was happening in the Kelo decision that Donald (alone among the candidates) supports, or what he had done for him in Atlantic City.

Building the wall (which Cruz will do as well) is a legitimate government function. It's part and parcel of protecting and defending our border. That puts it in the same bracket as a road, a school, or a hospital.

What went on in Kelo and in Atlantic City was simply the transfer of wealth in the form of property from poor and middle-class people for the benefit of private interests -- generally wealthy ones, at that.

20 posted on 02/03/2016 10:13:20 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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