I want to say in no uncertain terms that the latest decision by the Supreme court Is a affront to the American way. Justice Sandra Day O’Conner stated unequivocally, that this ruling opens wide the door for abuse of regular people by the wealthy. It allows them to have local government to seize your property if they think that the potential to make money is there.
A group of Connecticut residents claim that their property was selected for seizure to facilitate a group of builders plan to raise a office building where their homes stand.
It has always been law that a community could seize property if it were to benefit the community like a site for a bridge or bringing a road through, This new ruling allows for anyone with a plan and the cash to remove you from your homestead and use what used to be your property for their own personnel gain. They don’t even have to give you what you want financially they must simply pay “Fair Market Value”
Cities should not be given the authority to uproot families to simply add to the coffers of the wealthy citizens of the community. In this particular case a couple, in their eighties, are being forced to leave their home of more than fifty years so that they may develop the riverfront area to make more money for the wealthy.
Eminent Domain was never intended to be used as a tool to remove people from the homes to help the wealthy get wealthier it was meant to be used to improve the growth possibilities of a community. At least that is the way I see it here on Arrathorns Alley
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You're preaching to the choir! Our rights are slowly being striped from us by 'Big Brother'!!
I totally agree with you, Arathorn. This IS the epitome of bullshit.
Even if what is being built there will create jobs, etc... If the community is in an economic blight, it won't take it long for these new businesses to fail. It's not the government's responsibility to create jobs -- they are incapable of doing that. Their responsibility is to lower taxes so that companies and entrepreneurs can afford to create jobs there.
Land grabs and emminent domain grabs by local governments is exactly the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted when they drafted the constitution.
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