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Posted on 10/27/2005 6:12:26 PM PDT by freedomdefender
Governor Rick Perry signed the eminent domain bill into law in Waco, saying the legislation will "close a door the Supreme Court jarred open."
Perry had officially signed the law September first, but had to postpone the ceremonial signing in Waco because of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Texas was one of at least 31 states to review eminent domain laws following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that backed governments' power to take private land for economic development as a way to increase tax revenue.
At the Waco Association of Realtors office yesterday, Perry said that government should not encroach upon the private property rights unless there is an eminent public need.
He says that eminent domain for public use is a necessary power; eminent domain for private use is a great threat.
God bless Texas.
Funny how when the property is "yours" that if you don't do this or that right the govt takes it away...
/Applaud!
This may delay Mexico from taking away part of Texas in the short term.
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Do you know what the vote tally on the bill was? Just wondering.... This has to be one of the few really great moments of Perry's governorship.
It still allows the gov't to steal property for Perry's highway to hell.
Volley bump!
Exactly my thoughts.
I think Texas has become the leader of the Free World.
The Constitution always allowed that. Complain to Madison.
As long as municipalities levy property taxes, the whole concept of private property is a sham.
In other words, you are back to being sharecroppers in the sense that you are only "renting" the property from the local barony.
I agree!
And to take farmer's ranches away and give them to illegal aliens
She's trying to paint herself to the right of Perry which is a flat out attempt at deception.
I know what the 5th says. My gripe with Perry and his highway to hell is that landowners are not compensated for the real economic value of what's being taken. IE: Stealing.
Nothing precludes the Texas legislature from passing a law that says landowners for the Perry HTH must be compensated for the actual economic value of what is being taken.
She can't win. She is the most unattractive, shrill, dragon lady you can imagine. She looks and sounds like a brassy haired Helen Thomas while Perry looks like the Marlboro Man. (Execpt Perry badly needs an updated hairstyle.)
Wonder what else is in the bill?
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