You want to penalize them because they receive benefits like everybody else and I just do not think that is fair. And another important thing I think you have to focus on here is there is no time limit on this. There is no time limit. We are talking about benefits that that property might have derived from the very beginning of the republic, and I do not think that makes sense.
Discussing fairness in the context of benefits and property rights.
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