To those worrying about "foreigners buying America", consider "Japan buying America" in 1980s (tl;dr: "bust"): businessinsider.com/japans-eightie
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To be fair, if there was no bust, would the concerns then be valid?
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To Jacksonian Americans yes. To liberal types, meh. If they respect rule of law and no national security issue, who cares?
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Now tie it into the campaign contributions, wealth hoarding of corporations issue. See the dissonance?
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If 'wealthy furriners' are literally buying out the country, liberal intuition should be horrified as they can influence regulation
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What is potentially dangerous to pluralism is state-sponsored buying of strategic assets from ideologically opposed regimes
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I suspect that's rare, though with Russia, and Mid-East it may not be.
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I'd definitely be concerned if Chinese state-owned corps bought up a major port for instance.
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