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To: Protagoras
You're welcome to that. Oh, I hear there's a buyer that's willing to offer 20 times what it's worth. Still want to sell? Oh, and if you don't that means your property taxes will go up . . . 20 times, because the market value just shot up. Remember, market price is what a buyer is willing to spend.

Also, if you don't sell, your property will be surrounded by a stadium parking lot. And nobody needs you to sell for that.

I'm very much against the Kelo decision, but I hate it when people lie about it and other property rights cases. Stadiums were in most cases considered "public use". Remember that even a park is "public use". A public parking garage is "public use". There was a thin line that hadn't been crossed before Kelo, but it was there.

In addition, I think courts should be forced to calculate market price as the maximum of what the parcel of land is currently worth and what the developer claimed in his application to the city what it was worth.

34 posted on 10/06/2005 12:36:31 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Great point." -- AliVertias; ":-) Very clever" -- MJY1288)
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To: AmishDude
I don't want to sell at any price for any reason no matter what. If the property is going to anyone other than the government under the former correct interpretation of eminent domain, I don't have to sell.

You aren't against the Kelo decision, please do not pretend you are.

35 posted on 10/06/2005 12:51:47 PM PDT by Protagoras (Call it what it is, partial delivery murder.)
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