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Reason.TV has a pretty god segments about earmarks. I wish they would highlight several points more than they did - including the lack of actual control and questing of the use of public money, the problematic ties between the money recipients and those who awards it and the question of the use of federal budget for projects that at best should have been funded locally.

One of the clearest examples of government’s abuse of power is the Eminent Domain. It the purest example of the injustice that followed the replacement of a free market base trade with the idea that government, which theoretically represent the common good, can force a trade with a fair value. The slippery slope of using a governmental armed rubbery of one’s property for military bases and public roads developed into the vague idea of economical development of areas - with non-virtual rich developers that don’t need to negotiate for fair price.

The use of the government’s monopoly on the mean of violence for anything but the protection of human rights is, by nature, immoral. The use of this monopoly in order to force trade of private property is nothing but armed robbery. This is was the case when the Halpers were forced out of their farm, this is the case when Columbia university harness the government power to avoid paying the real market price for the city blocks it wants to acquire. And this is the case in the story that Drew Carey and Reason TV choose to bring. However the case to be made is that eminent domain is evil always, not only when its force poor people out of their property.