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To: entropy12
I have zero problem if a property owner is properly compensated so that a highway, a hospital, a court, a railroad, an oil pipe-line such as Keystone, etc needs use of that property location.

If you don't know the difference between these examples and kelo - and in Trump's case, Vera Coking, then I suggest you study it more.

In the Kelo decision, the Supreme Court held that "public use" could include private use, so long as the new property owner paid more in taxes than the previous one.

The government could take your property on the justification that another private entity, like Trump, could develop it and make more tax money for the state. Again, the government taking your property because someone else could generate more taxes off it.. That's not a highway or pipeline.

Trump supported Kelo "100%". And tried his own version against Vera Cokling.

Individual rights trumping the power of government is a major conservative principle. Trump is far on the wrong side of this.

19 posted on 10/31/2015 10:43:07 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

Have you heard of courts? That would be a good place for anyone who thinks their property should not be forced to sell.

Again people who have a morbid attachment to material things such as bricks & wood are not rational.


20 posted on 10/31/2015 10:47:05 PM PDT by entropy12 (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS or it is Amnesty! Only Trump has no rich donors pushing for cheap labor express)
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