Posted on 01/10/2016 4:39:14 AM PST by House Atreides
A brief history
In a free market, there's a pretty simple process for dealing with the situation that arises when one person covets another's belongings: The coveter makes an offer to purchase them. If the offer is rebuffed, the coveter can make a new proposal, but he cannot simply take what he wants. It's an effective way of recognizing the impracticality of the Tenth Commandment while enforcing the Eighth. Donald Trump's covetous nature is not in dispute, but what many may forget is that he's no great respecter of the admonition not to steal, either: The man has a track record of using the government as a hired thug to take other people's property. This is called, of course, "eminent domain." The Constitution's Fifth Amendment allows the government to take private property for "public use," so long as "just compensation" is paid. In the infamous 2005 Kelo decision, the Supreme Court held that "public use" could include, well, private use, so long as the new property owner paid more in taxes than the previous one. In other words, it allowed developers and the government to gang up on homeowners. The developer gets more land, the government gets more tax money. The only losers are the original owner and his property rights. A decade and a half ago, it was fresh on everyone's mind that Donald Trump is one of the leading users of this form of state-sanctioned thievery.
[NOTE: THE ARTICLE DISCUSSES SOME EXAMPLES OF TRUMP & EMINENT DOMAIN]
...Trump was delighted to find that the Supreme Court had okayed the brand of government-abetted theft that he'd twice attempted. "I happen to agree with it 100 percent," he told... Neil Cavuto of the Kelo decision. Can Republicans support someone with so little regard for... property of others? Let's hope not.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Think on the bright side. The Donald is going to eminent domain the Iraqi oil fields.
You're posting it because the same debate had in another thread wasn't going the way the deranged anti-Trump people were hoping.
Think on the bright side. The Donald is going to eminent domain the Iraqi oil fields.
That’s right Miss M, tell him twice, those anti-Trump knuckleheads never hear it the first time, lol :)
A wonderful Sunday to you ma’am!
Most people are more concerned with being dispossessed by the IRS or some drug charge, where market value compensation is of no concern.
Another hit piece from NR. Again, Trump has never had and will never have any impact whatsoever on Eminent Domain.
This eminent domain garbage from the Trump-haters is just another version of monkeys gone mad in their cages, they start slinging everything, their food, poop, random objects, all in hopes that they might hit something and make it stick.
We want a dictator. Hopefully Trump ends up being a benevolent dictator.
If you want an eminent domain case that will curl your hair, check out this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Housing_Authority_v._Midkiff
A wonderful Sunday to you. It’s pouring here but a perfect excuse to do nothing all day!
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Another invasion and occupation of Iraq is a bright side?
The issue is not an issue. The Kelo decision put it to rest
There can be disagreement, but overturning is not going to happen in the immediate present
Trump has nothing to do with that fact set
Speaking of confiscation, how about a thread illuminating the dominionists’ ‘seizing the wealth of the ‘wicked’ to be redistributed to the priests & the ‘kings’.- Ted Cruz being one of those ‘anointed kings’.
People have a right to know.
Speaking of confiscation, how about a thread illuminating the dominionists’ ‘seizing the wealth of the ‘wicked’ to be redistributed to the priests & the ‘kings’.- Ted Cruz being one of those ‘anointed kings’
People have a right to know.
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I have no idea what you are babbling about so I googled and found that Donald Trump apparently has the anointing of God to run America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkD3aDDN4i4
Pretty well much.
Links are in this post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3379182/posts
I may be mistaken, but I believe you contributed to that thread.
Also here
You should ask the Hammonds. The government’s tactics to take their land are the complete opposite of what Trump has ever done. He offered way above market price and having been rebuffed and lost in court, let it drop. In contrast the government rescinded rights and seized their water without any hearing and threw them in jail on bogus charges.
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