Posted on 10/06/2015 6:24:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Just compensation as determined by who? The government of course. You think most people get what their property is truly worth to them. My mom has been in her house 50 years, raised us kids there, spent 36 of the 37 years she was married to my Dad there. She wouldn't sell for 2 or 3 times what it's worth, why would she want to, her memories are there. She couldn't handle moving, it would probably kill her. Her neighborhood has had a lot of tear downs to build 5,000 sq foot Mcmansions, much bigger than her 2,000 sq foot house and the town would make more in taxes for a larger house. Should she be forced out so some connected developer can make a couple hundred thousand?
No, he's going to make the Mexicans build it. They can build it on their property. You don't want Mexican workers coming into the US to build it.
Ronald Reagan once said if you find a candidate with whom you agree with 70% of the time, run with him, or words of a similar gist.
I don’t agree with Trump’s comment on eminent domain, but lets face it, if we look for a candidate with whom we agree with 100% of the time, we will be looking from now until the end of World War VII.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” ― Sam Adams
Right, because it's going to be Trump vs. Obama. BTW, Trump would lose by double digits to even old Bernie Sanders if the election were today. He's a loser in the general. Other Republican candidates do much better.
Pretty much the way I feel.
We ain’t gonna get purity from anyone. If that is his worst wart I can live with it.
Anyways the supremes have ruled and there isn’t much a president can do about it. However the states can pass laws restricting it’s use.
“What do you mean? “
If there is no development, there is no windfall profit in the home.
Is the homeowner entitled to a windfall profit due to the work of another?
“continued PP funding after Trump came out in favor of it.”
Trump:
“While Planned Parenthood is engaging in the despicable practice of abortion — in addition to then selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder — the organization should receive no taxpayer dollars.”
Uh? What’s he promised regarding eminent domain? He’s being very honest, even risking the support of the purists.
"A Government is instituted to protect property of every sort.... This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own."
"In order to preserve property rights, but still allow the government to take property at times if it was appropriate, James Madison proposed the Eminent Domain amendment to the Constitution on June 8, 1789, along with a list of about twenty other amendments to the Constitution"
Now the facts:
1. She was holding out on PENTHOUSE developer.
2. She was filing against that developer holding up his project.
3. That developer abandoned the project.
4. She filed that the project was an eyesore which decreased her property value.
5. She was offered ONE MILLION for her rundown house.
6. Trump bought the project.
7. She file to keep Trump from tearing down the eyesore she wanted taken down.
8. Trump offered her TWO MILLION for the property pictured below.
NOTE THAT THE CONSTRUCTION AROUND HER PROPERTY WAS DONE BY PENTHOUSE NOT TRUMP.
Here is the house Trump offered TWO MILLION for. You also have to realize that she wouldn't sell to Penthouse that did that construction AND she was suing because the aborted construction was decreasing her house value!
AND she was suing to stop Trump from demolishing her eyesore because she said it wasn't safe to take the construction down!
Absolutely. A developer for a private enterprise should not have the right to take property for any amount of money and that includes Trump. I think he sees people less wealthy than he as the “little” people who matter less than he does, and that includes his Republican opponents. Recently calling Rubio a “boy” is an example of his looking down on people from his lofty multi-million dollar height.
Now the facts:
1. She was holding out on PENTHOUSE developer.
2. She was filing against that developer holding up his project.
3. That developer abandoned the project.
4. She filed that the project was an eyesore which decreased her property value.
5. She was offered ONE MILLION for her rundown house.
6. Trump bought the project.
7. She file to keep Trump from tearing down the eyesore she wanted taken down.
8. Trump offered her TWO MILLION for the property pictured below.
NOTE THAT THE CONSTRUCTION AROUND HER PROPERTY WAS DONE BY PENTHOUSE NOT TRUMP.
MEETING AJOURNED
I don’t care what Trump offered for the house. If she didn’t want to sell it, than tough sh*t. It was an old lady who had lived in the house for many years and she didn’t want to sell it. Should people in areas where older houses being torn down for Mcmansions be forced to sell their property? Money isn’t everything to some people, it was her house and she wanted it.
I’m beginning to see ‘shades of obama’. Promise anything, backtrack on everything.
BUT! BUT! BUT! The land you worked 60-80 hours a week for 50 years would make a beautiful golf course and Trump deserves your property so he can make more money and besides Trumps a billionaire so he knows better than you what to do with your property.
What’s hilarious about many of these comments is the concept of ‘private property’. There is no such thing. If you pay property taxes you own NOTHING. You are allowed the privilege of usage as long as you pay the authorities. As for ‘taking for the public good’, the Keystone pipeline is probably a bad idea. There will be a whole lot of ‘taking’ with that project.
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