The decision handed down by the supreme court gives government the ability to seize private property for “economic development”.
This is outrageous.
As a result, cities have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes to generate tax revenue.
Opposing the decision were O’Connor, Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia.
In favor were the rest.
The whole thing started when residents in New London, Connecticut, opposed a city plan to raze their homes for a riverfront entertainment complex. City officials claimed the economic benefit to the area outweighed homeowner’s rights to keep their property.
This is sickening.
Where does it stop? Now, you can lose your home, your business, even if it’s not in a “blighted” area, even if you don’t want to sell, even if they’re tearing down an attractive middle-class neighborhood to put up a wally mart or a hotel.
And this went down totally under the radar.
