WSJ on Eminent Domain
The Wall Street Journal has a back and forth on the eminent domain.
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May 19th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
Don takes the extreme position. A less extreme position is that actual public works (mainly roads) can justifiably use eminent domain when the land cannot be assembled in other ways, but eminent domain for “development” is unjustified. The argument that makes me see red: “Can a city take a $200,000 house to permit a developer to build one for a $1 million, claiming the move would be good for the local tax base?”
If increased tax collections are a public use, then we’re all simply slaves, here to produce revenue for our government masters.