Read: Individuals can no longer own their land if you see a way you can profit.
I'm glad this Soviet-style ruling makes you money. After all, that's all that counts, right?
"Read: Individuals can no longer own their land if you see a way you can profit.
I'm glad this Soviet-style ruling makes you money. After all, that's all that counts, right?"
It does not make me HAPPY.
It does make me RICHER.
What I think is good or bad is hardly relevant anyway.
If Americans do not LIKE this outcome, it is incumbent on them to DO something about it.
In France, it would provoke a general strike were Parliament to do this. And this is one reason why investment in land development projects in France is so damned hard all the time. The old lady with her pigeon coop can block everything, and DOES, and you just have to wait until she dies.
In America, the laws are much more oriented to business and investment. Land is a commodity, and the freer it can be traded up to maximize the economic return of its use, the better. Americans have structured their system of law to favor business, and this is incredibly favorable to the real estate development business.
If Americans don't LIKE this...and I certainly do not like the implications of this law were I looking at it from the perspective of the old lady with the pigeons...then it is incumbent upon them to make their government to CHANGE it.
But there is really no effective vehicle to do that in America. There is no tradition of the general strike at all, and there is no override of the US Supreme Court. Business interests dominate both US parties.