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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:17 PM Original message |
Honest question: If people can be drafted, why not property? |
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mr_hat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. Or corporations? They're people. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. They Can [eom] |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:19 PM Original message |
But do they, ever? |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
12. They Sort Of Have |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. There's also eminent domain - |
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ContraBass Black (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. Yes. Daily. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. um... the government CAN take your property. Eminent domain n/t |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Don't they have to pay you for it? nt |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yes. They have to pay a fair rate. And when they draft soldiers... |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Not a fair rate. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Yeah, but no job in the world does that... |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. You can't compare it to a job, because there is no free choice involved. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Soldiers can buy life insurance the same as anyone else... |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I'm not saying the idea is totally unreasonable, |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. in cases of successful lawsuit they may |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. True, but that's not the issue here... |
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stop the bleeding (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm stupid - but I thought that they could |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. Or a kidney |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Whatever it takes to keep Bin Laden alive and scaring us.... |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. cause that's where conservatives draw the line |
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ryanus (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
13. Ah! You ask a good question |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. Third Amendment expressly forbids taking your house |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. The same warped value system applies to our foreign policy |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
21. Why would the government want to? |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Simple: |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. But you can do that far more efficiently with taxation |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:52 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I'm not sure that's true. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 03:04 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Um... |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 03:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Fine with me. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 04:12 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Aaargh. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 04:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Well, I may not be an econ. wiz, |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
22. they can, it's called eminent domain |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Not yet, anyway |
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