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> Unions hold countries hostage by closing down rail or airports. Still, a solution that doesn't cost 1 billion dollars per person is always found. Completely
by sarchertech 3y ago
> Unions hold countries hostage by closing down rail or airports. Still, a solution that doesn't cost 1 billion dollars per person is always found.
Completely different situation. You only need the majority of the workers in the union. No single person or small group of people can hold up the process.
For this situation to be at all similar to a union negation, you’d need to group all affected property owners together, offer them some multiple of property value each and ask for a group vote as a binding decision.
That’s still eminent domain, just potentially with a higher payout, which equates to a higher cost to the taxpayers.
- nickpp 3y ago> equates to a higher cost to the taxpayers Considering the astonishing inefficiency of government works I really doubt confiscation compensations is a significant expenditure.
- sarchertech 3y agoThe government almost never does the work on an infrastructure project, but the high price of infrastructure have much less to with the fact that the government is paying the bill than with the regulations that any project public or private has to work within. If we stopped eminent domain though, property purchase prices probably would become a significant portion of the total expense.