Ep. 605 Do We Need Eminent Domain to Build Roads?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
One of the most frequently cited reasons for the alleged need for eminent domain is road provision -- how could roads be built if people with property along the route couldn't have their property taken from them? Well, they can, and I explain how in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 605. |
| 0:03.1 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.7 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:13.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's a solo episode. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm going to do this one on my own. |
| 0:18.2 | On Friday, not that you need to know my troubles, but on Friday I had two |
| 0:22.1 | podcast interviews lined up and they both fell through. One of them just, I don't know how to put it, |
| 0:27.3 | just didn't quite work out. And the other one, the connection was bad. I really wanted to do that |
| 0:32.6 | one. And the connection was bad. People got to learn to use Skype in this day and age. |
| 0:38.1 | Let me just put it that way. |
| 0:39.2 | If you use Skype, you won't have any problems, and you can usually get pretty good audio |
| 0:43.3 | quality with it. |
| 0:44.5 | So that was very disappointing. |
| 0:46.0 | So I thought, oh, I'm going to be way ahead of the game. |
| 0:48.4 | Not really, as it turns out. |
| 0:50.3 | So I'm going to do this episode on my own. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm not going to go a day without an episode. What are you talking about here? |
| 0:55.1 | And in fact, I've been meaning to do this for a while. So today presents me with an opportunity. It's not a disappointment. It's an opportunity to do something I'd been meaning to do anyway. |
| 1:05.6 | Ever since Lou Rockwell and I talked about eminent domain a couple of debate episodes ago, two or three. We talked about |
| 1:13.3 | Trump's very, very bad position on eminent domain. And I just made offhand reference to an |
| 1:21.4 | article that I like on this subject by Bruce Benson in the Independent Review. And I linked to it on the |
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