This ruling was haphazard at a minimum and sounds almost communist ("for the good of the state, comrade"). I've seen some of these things happening locally, on TV, and it's bad in many of the cases. They should have to compensate the owners at least double or triple the taxed market value amount of the land and property. I don't know if I even like that. There's gotta be a better way to deal with this issue.I'm just left sadly shaking my head at this foolishness... CFR was bad enough. The fact that property taxes mean you really don't own your own land, but rather, rent it, is awful, too.
I'm left pondering something I read in A.E. VanVogt's "The Weapons Shops of Ishir" many years ago: "People get the kind of government they deserve..."