Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu From: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Running down property Message-ID: <12229750885.51.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 15:08:03 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12229750885.51.MCGREW Posted: Sun Aug 10 15:08:03 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Aug-86 23:39:10 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 7 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu There is no rent control in Pittsburgh, nor do they build toxic waste dumps. My point was that land owners often do things that do not make long-term economic sense because the consequences are beyond their planning horizon. I was trying to deflate these odes to land owners that I was hearing. -------