Posted on 04/08/2023 6:33:56 AM PDT by george76
Did you even read the article? And you get on here and call another Freeper a “moron?”
No wonder these quarterly fundraisers on FR are so disappointing. It’s exhausting to even spend ten minutes of time dealing with some of the jackasses here.
A.C. Wharton wasn't racist enough for contemporary politics as it's practiced today. Today they want them dumb, easily manipulated, dependent for every need, unemployable, and willing to induce chaos and hate when and where directed.
Roads to a factory.
Moron.
Don’t tell me there aren’t roads there now.
Let them build where the roads are sufficient.
Eminant Domain is communism in drag.
Have to remember Biden & Co. is a trend setters now
Chaos for money or power
Time to find an endangered critter in the area the EV plant is going. That should gum up the works for years.
Eminent domain. Very popular out here in CaCaLand. If developer can put up a spreadsheet showing that the state can get more tax $$$ (before tax discounts, of course) with the deal they can confiscate the asset and give it to the developer. Of course, the original owner will be compensated for market value — which is in column 17 of same spreadsheet.
Probably the only way to queer such is to contaminate the asset with some sort of environmental poison, or make up a protected species.
There’s a little strip of land along the Mississippi border that’s west of Memphis but still in Tennessee. So it’s technically possible to be west of Memphis but still in the state. No significant road and I don’t see any rail infrastructure there. It does have access to the river, but no port facitilites.
They are hiding behind the “ROAD’ issue-—Road is to GET TO NEW FACTORY
The Saturn Plant became “Spring Hill Assembly”, producing internal combustion engines for GM products, and also GM crossover vehicles wearing various badges found under the GM umbrella. There is also, currently under construction, a battery manufacturing facility that will be producing batteries for GM’s EV lines.
Just when you start to think they have their shit together after the expulsions, they do something stupid like this.
I remember when they brought the Ford plant to Springfield, Tn. They promised they would hire Tennesseans but they brought their union employees from Detroit.
Forget food
Drive around for a minute
Except the road is ONLY needed because of the Ev plant. No plant no road.
Yes exactly right. Sometimes I spell it Cali, but Kali what I call my evil state.
Along with everything else that's going to come afterward ... retail development, housing tracts, hotels, etc.
No plant no road.
No shopping mall, no roads.
No housing subdivisions, no roads.
No steel mills, no roads.
No warehouses, no roads.
No churches, no roads.
No schools, no roads.
That's kind of how it works -- isn't it? The infrastructure is built to serve a purpose. There isn't any place in the U.S. where this is not the norm.
TVA has been a Federal entity since it’s conception May 18, 1933 and the Tennessee Valley Authority Act was signed by Roosevelt. We/our electrical co-ops buy power from them.
My ancestral homes in TN & NC are under Tellico to Fontana. I can’t even visit the graves of my ancestors because the gov renigged on the Road to Nowhere under Obama for the final time.
They need to go build this on a Superfund site away from rivers and streams and not on anyones farmland.
Of course, it wouldn’t be FR without tradition ;-)
There’s a good Reagan story that goes with the photo. I can’t recall it exactly right but after the handshake they conversed briefly and Reagan says something like, when we were done speaking I wasn’t sure who was president!
In my opinion, the use of emanant domain should be restricted to:
- purchase a 10% above market value
- resulting use only for publicly held property
- sale of the property within 20 years should first be offered to the prior owner as a first right of refusal at 10% below market value.
Let’s not forget Kelso. Which opened the door for such expansions of what public good meant.
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