the "USA" isn't selling farm land to foreigners Individual Americans are, presumably because they want to retire, or buy something other than dirt. If you don't like that, outbid the other buyers and buy it yourself Don't try to infringe on farmers' rights to dispose of assets https://t.co/AePtfW3zqe
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A significant amount of economic and political leverage in that state; now there's an incentive for government to kowtow to keep them spending Member we're libertarian, but that's not the playbook other people use
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At the end of the day, if they get too uppity about it we change the laws or use eminent domain or regulate it to their disconvenience.
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not much came of the japanese buying everything in sight in the 80s (I think it was the 80s?), despite all the hysteria
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Again I follow, but the post-war Japanese aren't anymore the Chinese Communist Party than the Germans are; it's not concern about foreign investment in general but about who is making the investment specifically
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also, why are chinese buying land in the US? just to own something safe, I assume - isn't it essentially just more capital flight? if so, why get riled up about it?
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also, if I told you that an American investor was buying land in Chile or Thailand or something, you'd worry that he was getting conned by the conniving locals, who know the value of land and local conditions far better than he does yet when it's Chinese citizens...
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