Friday, June 24, 2005
And another thing on Kelo
Do you own your riverfront or waterfront home? Are you kind of not well-off? Is the neighborhood a little dowdy? Well, watch out. Only the rich -- excuse me -- "revenue enhancers" -- have an absolute right to that property now. This is what your US Supreme Court said. Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting, has this exactly right:
Sickening.
Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner, so long as it might be upgraded.
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The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the state from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall or any farm with a factory.
Sickening.
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