Eminent domain can only be used to acquire land for a public need. And you have to be paid fair compensation for what the government wants.
Remember Kelo?
They can take your property for a K-Mart because it pays more tax, according to SCOTUS
As government gets fat and more arrogant, what it is willing to call a “need” grows beyond credulity.
That's what we learned in school. That's not how it works anymore in our Brave New World.
The breauracry will just out lawyer you with taxpayer money and keep it going until they find the 'right judge' who wants to get promoted to a life-time federal job.
Boss Tweed was a small-time hustler compared to these big-time breaucratic thieves we suffer through today.