Eminent Problems
Eminent Domain is essentially where a government takes a citizen’s property for the good of the public. I’m not completely opposed to this notion (assuming the citizens involved are more than adequately compensated) as we need roads and such built. But like any government privilege, it’s often abused. Per this article:
A report claims that 10,000 properties have been seized by cities for private developers.
The village had simply declared eminent domain, so that another private developer could build part of a Stop & Shop and parking lot where Mr. Brody’s commercial buildings sat.
A stop & shop is for the public good? You take a man’s private property and give it to another party?
But wait, there’s more:
• In Atlantic City, an entire black middle-class neighborhood was condemned and destroyed to make way for a tunnel to a new casino that was never built.
• Bremerton, Washington removed a woman in her 80s from her home of 55 years for the claimed purpose of expanding a sewer plant, but gave her former home to an auto dealership.
• West Palm Beach County in Florida condemned a family’s home so that the manager of a planned new golf course could live in it.
