Thomas Jefferson on property rights:
“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.”
“He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.”
Yet we see conservatives on this thread dismissing those rights, even mocking them, because for them, no Constitutional right is as important as Trump.
No one is preventing anyone from owning property. They are asked to sell what they have, for fair value, so that the lives of everyone in the area can be improved...roads and schools or commerce which brings jobs. Individuals or developers do not impose imminent domain, cities, states do. They do it in order to build roads, schools, hospitals, libraries...anything and everything that is a gov’t function. Cities also have agencies that are geared toward economic development. Those agencies use imminent domain to acquire property for those purposes. These agencies DO pay a fair price for property, however they do not pay a huge over value price because if they did we would never have a road or a hospital etc. When they acquire property for these purposes it is YOUR money they are using to buy these properties. You cannot hold a developer up as a tyrant for using property a city has made available to them to do with what they wanted to be done. Also you might want to ask how much the KOCH brothers use imminent domain for all their pipelines....it IS extensive. Don’t be lead around by the media, their only desire is to deceive you.