http://democraticSPACE.com/blog/2005/07/planners-know-best-kelo-v-new-london-says-so/ DemocraticSPACE is one of North America's leading non-partisan political websites. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:55:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://democraticSPACE.com/blog/2005/07/planners-know-best-kelo-v-new-london-says-so/comment-page-1/#comment-3 DemocraticSpace.com/blog Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:08:02 +0000 http://democraticspace.com/blog/?p=2#comment-3 [...] Here’s a website for you: privatization.org. These fine folks are dedicated to making everything, everywhere private (think: libertarian). The Fraser Institute must do them proud! Geoffrey Segal’s reaction to the Kelo/New London ruling is a classic libertarian scare tactic: because of Kelo, if cities are in trouble financially they are going to take your home in order to raise tax dollars. Now I don’t agree with Kelo either (see my response – probably the very few times I would agree with Segal), but to use this case as a justification for why we need ‘smaller’ government is pure politicking. [...] [...] Here’s a website for you: privatization.org. These fine folks are dedicated to making everything, everywhere private (think: libertarian). The Fraser Institute must do them proud! Geoffrey Segal’s reaction to the Kelo/New London ruling is a classic libertarian scare tactic: because of Kelo, if cities are in trouble financially they are going to take your home in order to raise tax dollars. Now I don’t agree with Kelo either (see my response – probably the very few times I would agree with Segal), but to use this case as a justification for why we need ‘smaller’ government is pure politicking. [...]

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