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Originally posted by Spanky
You may think it is Odious, but you benefit from it everyday. Without it we wouldn't have an interestate system. You wouldn't have electricty, gas, water, and there wouldn't be a single expressway or freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area (not to mention any public transportation). In addition there wouldn't be any shopping centers - especially in San Francisco.
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Perhaps I misused the term, but when I said "the regulatory takings concept," I was referring to the concept you advanced -- i.e., that you should be compensated for the loss of value to your land if you can't build a factory or toxic waste dump there. I'm not suggesting that gov't can't regulate land use (as if I need to point that out to anyone); I disagree with your notion that you should be paid for it.
Regulatory taking, as I (mis?)understand the term, has nothing to do with building the interstate system. Again, maybe I am misusing my terms but that sort of eminent domain taking, which I believe is clearly allowed by the Constitution but requires compensation, is different.
