• TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Doesnt the us also have those powers and didn’t they use them liberally in the construction of both the railways and interstates?

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      6 days ago

      That just changed completely, far cry when there was this Robert Moses had whole neighborhoods demolished for highways and rearranging whole cities. Now any sort of public infrastructure in the US does have to undergo scrutiny, whether it’s going to affect people or their mortgages or both. And most of the homeowners will oppose anything that shatters their idyll.