COMMENTARY BY HAROLD FURCHTGOTT-ROTH

FCC Confuses Expropriation With Incentives

the former FCC commissioner says that “incentive auctions are little different from expropriation of property, far worse than the usual government condemnation of property under eminent domain.” He goes on to say “There is a better way: Simply rezone broadcast spectrum to permit other uses, and let anyone buy and sell it.”