[kiryandil]

Getting back to your false "concern" about eminent domain, most Americans rent "their" property from the government.

You mentioned the Fifth Amendment earlier. Here is one story of many about "private property" being taken for public use [settling property tax bills], without just compensation:

A woman in Michigan, who owned her home outright, having paid $164,000 for it, missed paying a tax bill for $2,000. The local county seized her home and sold it for roughly $80,000, pocketing $78,000 after the tax bill was settled.

The woman got nothing except for her legal bills:

Judge gives Kalamazoo County green light to sell woman's home after property tax mistake
http://fox17online.com/2014/10/02/judge-gives-kalamazoo-county-green-light-to-sell-womans-home-after-property-tax-mistake/

[jeffersondem]

“A woman in Michigan, who owned her home outright, having paid $164,000 for it, missed paying a tax bill for $2,000. The local county seized her home and sold it for roughly $80,000, pocketing $78,000 after the tax bill was settled.”

That is one of the biggest abuses of government power that I've read in awhile. Thanks for sharing.

These abuses need to be stopped - not celebrated by conservatives. We certainly don't need to vote for candidates who have participated in corrupt public/private partnerships to condemn homes to build strip clubs. Err, I mean parking lots for limousine liberals.

[kiryandil]

I think perhaps today and tomorrow I will address some of the New Jersey “property tax takings” abuses, being as how that’s where the phony “concern troll” thingee about the widder Vera Coking is centered.