[Vision2020] Advanced Real Estate Question

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Monday 11 February 2008 15:41, Chasuk wrote:
 
> So, at what point would this become absurd?

First, I ask that you read my response to Darrell Keim's message to this 
list. I don't believe that workable solutions to these development concerns 
are beyond the limits of rationality, existentialist or otherwise. 

> How much of Washington 
> state would have to be subsumed into Idaho under these arguably moral
> principles before Washingtonians objected?

I suspect there exist Washingtonians who would object to subsumption of any 
of Washington into Idaho, with or without moral principles involved.

> When the Washington-Idaho border was outside Olympia?

The Washington-Idaho border now is outside Olympia -- far outside it -- 
quite possibly to the satisfaction of many Washingtonians. For another 
related answer, see my reply to Darrell Keim.

> And why would Idaho necessarily be the encroacher?

It appears in the current situation Idaho is the encroachee, rather than the 
encroacher.

> Couldn't Washingtonians object that they were being denied their right to 
> profitably engage in free enterprise by anti-capitalist Idahoans,

Such objections would be without without equitable merit. Free enterprise is 
as much a Washingtonian privilege as an Idahoan privilege, and there is 
plenty of enthusiasm on both sides of the border for productivity and 
profits. However, profitable productivity is not the equitable product of 
taking advantage of others. Idahoans are not anti-capitalist when we stand 
and demand not only procedural propriety in our own decision-making, but 
also equitable resource allocation and compensation among parties.

> and subsume us, possibly all the way to Boise?

Any proposed land swap that would deliver a delegation to the District of 
Columbia composed of members of the political party out of power would be a 
dead-on-arrival proposal.

> I suggest either that we merge with Washington state (which, for me,
> would be splendid, as it would hugely increase the number of Democrats
> in my state),

Dream on. Well, OK, draw a west to east line representing a north-south 
border at the 45th North Latitude, then attach everything north of the 45th 
to Washington. They get rapidly growing Coeur d'Alene, lots of recreation 
and wilderness lands, and another university for overflow expansion. We get 
to retain a state capital far away, just westward instead of southward. And 
we still might not get the major newspaper of the state delivered locally. 
However, some of the legislators might be more interesting, and conceivably 
we might get our north-south goat trail converted into an actual highway.

> or that the feds pass a law outlawing business along state borders,

I think you'll have some constitutional commerce clause problems there ...

> which would likely hamper the trade in smuggled cigarettes and force the  
> closure of many strip clubs.  Of course, they would have to grandfather  
> in existing businesses, but I don't see a problem, otherwise, except for 
> the problem of suddenly impoverished smugglers, and dispossessed         
> strippers.

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Ken