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De Blasio ally open to city seizing foreclosed homes from banks (New York City)
The New York Post ^
| November 15, 2013
| Yoav Gonen
Posted on 11/15/2013 2:06:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The most left-leaning candidate for City Council speaker says she would consider using eminent domain to seize homes that are in foreclosure from banks a move that could leave taxpayers subsidizing the mortgages.
Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan/Bronx), a close ally of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, said she was open to the proposal when asked about it during a forum in Queens Thursday night featuring five main contenders in the race for speaker.
The idea of using eminent domain in a reverse way
as a way of seizing those properties from the bank as a way of making those homes affordable for people that want to stay in their communities I think is something we should look at, said Mark-Viverito, a top contender for the powerful role. I think its innovative, its creative
nothing should be off the table.(continued)
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: crime; deblasio; democrats; foreclosures; mortgages; newyork; swine; theft
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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The Ten Planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (and How Statists Implement Them) |
- Abolition of private property rights (via high property taxes, restrictive zoning laws, "fair housing" edicts, environmental and "wetlands" regulations, UN Agenda 21, etc.)
- Institution of a heavily graduated income tax (by calling it "taxing the rich")
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance (through a confiscatory estate tax on "the rich")
- Confiscation of the property of enemies of the state (through lawless application of asset forfeiture and eminent domain)
- Centralization of credit into the hands of the state (Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, TARP, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, federal takeover of student loans, etc.)
- Centralization of the means of communication and transportation into the hands of the state (FCC, DOT, FEMA, NTSB, FAA, etc.).
- Consolidation and subjugation of all major industries to central government control (FDA, EPA, OSHA, ICC, HUD, NLRB, EEOC, DOE, TSA etc.)
- Mandatory labor union membership ("card check" to bypass employee consent, automatic withholding of union dues, forced unionization of health care workers, teachers, police, firefighters, etc.)
- Equitable redistribution of all wealth (TANF, SSI, EITC, SNAP, Community Reinvestment Act, etc.)
- Free public education (and food, housing, health care, cell phones, Internet access, etc.)
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:10:25 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Coming Soon: People’s Courts
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:11:34 PM PST
by
Viennacon
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is pretty big news. The impact on the banks would depend on the amount of compensation paid.
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:11:49 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wish I could be sympathetic, but most of our banks are basically our government and operated by cronies.
what a fine pickle we got ourselves in.
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:13:01 PM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:13:37 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: FreeAtlanta
This is really just another bailout of banks. The banks will love getting paid full price by the city without the bother of having to maintain, hold and market foreclosed properties.
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:15:47 PM PST
by
Mr. Lucky
To: firebrand; rmlew
What on earth will co-op boards do when they discover that section 8 renters are moving in to the formerly bank owned units?
Pop the popcorn!
To: FreeAtlanta
The bank gets paid Fair Market Value. Or do these people think that Eminent Domain means yo take the property for nothing.
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:15:52 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: FreeAtlanta
That makes blatant theft of private property okay?!
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:16:02 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Redistribution!!!!! NY has no idea whats coming. His so called wife which isn't, is in on every meeting, is in charge of selecting everyone in this administration. She is a proud lesbian who gave birth to his children but still carries her maiden name Mccray. NY voted for this imbecile and they now have a complete stranger who they didnt vote for running the show.
To: FreeAtlanta
The De Blasio ally is anti-bank. Just like you.
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:17:48 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: All
you’ll be paying higher taxes and possibly higher mortgage rates in order to pay for other people’s houses.
goes right along with you paying higher insurance rates to pay for other people’s health insurance.
and all you suckers spent all that time in college studying to earn degrees and get jobs that paid good.
all this time you coulda just waiting for the country to go Marxist.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
We now know that the banks colluded with the government and the Fed to do QE and QE2 in order to bail out the banks at the expense of the taxpayers.
We now know that the insurance companies and drug companies colluded with the Obama administration to try and make Obamacare workable for them at the expense of the taxpayers.
If DeBlasio goes after the banks the only real downside is that the banks will find a way to pass whatever losses they incur onto the taxpayers once again.
Communism was never really tried because it is a fairy tale that can't exist in a real world. Communism was just a facade behind which the monopolistic capitalistic enterprise we called the Soviet government hid.
'Free Market' or 'Welfare State Capitalism' is the term we use to describe the oligarchic enterprise that currently runs the U.S.
We are hosed regardless of whether the politicians seem to be winning or corporate America seems to be winning.
Regardless, the only ones that are always losing are those that earn taxable income.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I actually love this idea.
I think these Marxist democrats(redundant) should do this and do it as much as possible.
Of course the City will actually have to PAY for all of this and since NYC can’t print money, why then taxes will have to skyrocket.
One request would be to pass a law requiring all NYC denizens to remain or pay a bond to cover.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:08:38 PM PST
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: bill1952
Of course the City will actually have to PAY... Not if the city just takes the property at NO COST and NO PAYMENT to the bank.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:17:25 PM PST
by
newfreep
(Breitbart sent me...)
To: trisham
I suppose there’s a difference bw being “anti-bank” and “anti crony who demands the privatization of profits while socializing the losses bank.”
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:22:33 PM PST
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
To: newfreep
Taking property by eminent domain requires a fair payment to the owner, but I guess no one really cares about laws anymore so I guess you’re right.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:23:55 PM PST
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
To: trisham
I don’t consider myself anti-bank... well, not until many of them climbed onto the crony bandwagon.
Personally, I am ready for an international year of Jubilee. I think it might be the only way to reset the ridiculous debts that have been accrued.
It looks like God knew something. Is he anti-bank?
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:29:26 PM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
To: FreeAtlanta
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:49:28 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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