Quote:No "progressive" or anyone has suggested taking land away, but they have suggested taking assets away. You don't seem to see the correlation of what happened in the past and what is proposed today. To "nationalize" or take away the business of oil companies was in fact, <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/waters.asp'>a goal of one certain "progressive" congresswoman.</a> It came from her own mouth. That's outright stealing through government over reach. Think about how if something like that really happened, how much more the governement would grow and what it would do to the industry.

Yes, progressives DO want to take land. The believe that land is a national resource that should belong to all people. "Land Reform" is a central tenet of the party since the Georgism the 19th century. If it's not outright confiscation then its a Land Value Tax where you either develop your land the way they want or you get forced by taxation to sell. It's also why they've taken millions of acres out of the private sector the last hundred years, because they don't think land should be a private property. Of course Boudreau well be along to tell us it just ain't so, so YMMV.

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