Posted on 06/14/2019 3:32:00 PM PDT by ETL
Farmers up and down California’s Central Valley are up in arms over the state seizing their land to build its long-awaited high-speed railway and then failing to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed them for years.
Thanks to an order of possession by the Superior Court, California can take private land through eminent domain for the troubled bullet train project.
While landowners are expected to eventually be reimbursed for the property – and for expenses like lost farming production, irrigation replacement projects and road construction – many farmers in California’s agricultural heartland say state officials have offered them a myriad of excuses as to why they haven’t yet doled out the cash.
“I am out a quarter-million bucks on infrastructure, and they haven’t paid a dime for a year,” John Diepersloot, a fruit farmer who cleared a large parcel of his peach orchard to make way for the train, told The Los Angeles Times.
“I don’t have that kind of money.”
What’s even more frustrating for California’s farmers are the constantly changing plans for the train, the multiple delays in construction, the seemingly skeleton-staffed California High-Speed Rail Authority and the difficulty in getting concrete answers.
“The property owners are very frustrated that the high-speed rail authority don’t seem to know what they actually need,” said Mark Wasser, a Sacramento-based attorney representing more than 70 farmers and businesses affected by the project.
“We have farmers who the authority has come back four times to change where they want to take.”
Rail authority officials acknowledge they have not yet paid numerous landowners, but so far have not given a reason for the delay.
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[ California farmers furious over delayed payments for land seized in high-speed rail push ]
But it’s all good, right liberals?
“Wait. We seized the land. Why are we paying them??”
high speed rail is a scam the money was used for illegals and social programs and the land has been confiscated and will never be returned
And I hope the federal government gets its $2 billion back, first.
“Rail authority officials acknowledge they have not yet paid numerous landowners, but so far have not given a reason for the delay.”
Money already spent on California’s self-induced homeless crisis, socialism, and free ice-cream?
I don't know, Gavin, to me it sounds a little, how you say.. "Phony"?
Democrat Party rule
Red China Lite
CA will just say land seized because of eminent domain or whatever.
CA farmers should share the wealth like all good little liberals.
At some point Newsom will terminate the rail project and then redistribute the confiscated land to colored people. ( I like adjectives and do not use adjectival prepositional phrases)
By eminent domain is how the land is taken for a project, that is the authority under which the rail authority would approach the negotiations for the land.
That does not mean the State gets the land for free.
But it’ll delay payout even more - then too, CA will say since Trump dumped the rail plan with no money coming, CA will also say “well there ya go” ...
Private Property is Theft to a Democratic Socialist (you know the majority that voted for this project)
Don’t forget Health Care for the new Illegals too.
They’re farmers, right? I assume they can, and want to get their land back, right?
Unless, they really just wanted state money...
Who could forget? California uber alles.
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