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Pay them the value at which they are assessed property taxes. Seems the state is really good at setting those values as high as possible to confiscate as much tax revenue as possible. Untrue. Tax assessments are almost always behind market value (no matter what direction the market is moving in.)

Given the rapidly escalating property values in Seattle it seems like good planning. Those same rising values can partly explaing the spread between what the city paid for the land and what it expects to get According to the city official, the spread was due to the city being able to afford tearing down what was there and replacing it with spendy condos, etc. Planning a hasty exit for small business owners is not good planning. It is strong-arming.

How the fuck should I know what the government took for I5? Show me where to look stuff like that up, and I will enjoy reading it (Google didn't give me these numbers). And yes, taking someone else's property should be the absolute last resort. And if you read what the folks were paid for their property and what the city is saying it can get for it, then you don't have to be a superstar real estate agent to see that they were robbed. Just because the gov't has had a habit of taking people's property don't mean that is what we should keep doing. And as an aside, don't you think it was maybe a little premature to start buying property before even ensuring that the project was going to go through? Doesn't that seem just a little bit fishy to you?

What do those buses run on? Roads and highways - eminent domain is used for expansion of both. Oh please, you are pushing it with that one. Miles of businesses were not taken so that a bus can ride on the same road that was already there for cars.

Enlighten me.

As far as I have understood, every real effort at "public transportation" everywhere has invoved some "taking" of private property and this has included, often, "fucking over the little guy." Yes, our Constitution provides that we give "fair" compensation, but that is not always what the little guy thinks if fair – particularly in retrospect. And this question is the same for the light rail project that IS under way. Private property has been condemned for the light rail, too, and it will not be accomplished without heavy impact on many many property owners along the route. I bet some "little guy" was screwed when they built the London tube, the Paris metro, the New York subway, or any other large scale public transportation project ever built. I ride the bus to work everyday. As far as I know, no one's property was comandeered for this form of public transportation. When I lived in Boulder, I rode my bike to work everyday. Why, because the bike paths there a well-planned, safe, and attrative. As far as I know, no one's property was stolen to make those paths. When I lived in Denmark, I took the train everywhere I went. That system was put without ripping out people's homes or businesses. Seattle used to have a fairly extensive electric car system of sorts. NO one's property was taken for that--it was built into the roadway. Come on now, there must be a way to build a route w/o making a heavy negative impact on people's lives. I just refuse to believe that there is not a single civil engineer bright enough to figure out a way. Call me a goddam optimist, but that is how I see it.

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They really didn't have any choice. I have read a number of interviews with people who had to sell family businesses and whatnot. It is completely fucked. It is another example of the government appropriating private property for the "common good". Although I agree with public transportation, I don't agree with fucking over the little guy to get it.

Fuck no. And you'll be charged again next time you register your car. That tax will NEVER go away. And the people who were forced to sell their businesses and properties below market value are screwed. The city will be selling their real estate for extroirdinary profit. It is dispicable.

Good thinking. Then, you can just hang and drain em.

Helicopters are aid.

The get shot.

That is my favorite word of the day.

And you are a wanker.

No, they are/were a diverse group of people who belonged to many different tribes with their own different ethnicity.

Ah. So are there no "ethnic Americans"?

And what are people supposed to do when the wake up? No one is just going to open thier eyes and whammo, things are reformed.

Why are some Chinese "ethnic" and the others "Han"?

The gruesome practice has been documented among ethnic Chinese communities throughout Asia, but so far every attempt to prove that people were leaving U.S. soil to buy organs from China's massive death row has failed. what is the difference between an "ethnic Chinese community" in Asia and a Chinese community in Asia?

Skin was said to be highly valued for the treatment of burn victims, and Dr Wang said that in 1995 he skinned a shot convict's body while the man's heart was still beating. Dr Wang, who was seeking asylum in the US, also alleged that corneas and other body tissue were removed for transplant, and said his hospital, the Tianjin paramilitary police general brigade hospital, sold body parts for profit. Asylum? What job would he have here? Some resume that dude must have.

The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about". Using tiger penis to stir your coffee is also traditional.

thank you for the sacrafice. You da man.

Just send the fucking PM, douchbag.

I just wrote you a long answer to your questions about WaMu and it was deleted b/c your pm box is full. I fucking hate you. So empty your box and PM me your phone number b/c I am not going to rewrite all the shit I just wrote. Asshole.

Awesome. he now has earned the right to whine.