The taking of private property for a public purpose is in the Constitution, and for a good reason.
There are times when land - not just any land - but specific land - is required for the construction of a road, a bridge, a naval yard, a courthouse, a canal, a dam, and so on. Those are pubic purposes.
The construction of an apartment building, a mall, or a casino by a private entity is NOT a public purpose. The government didn’t even have the temerity to claim such in Kelo.
Instead, the government took a broader position: that taking the property from its owners and giving it to new owners would increase the tax rake-off, and THAT is a public purpose. And the Supreme Court agreed.
With such a broadly defined basis for claiming public purpose, there would be absolutely no bar to your county government taking you house and land at a song and deeding it to someone else - anyone else - just as long as they planned to build a bigger, more expensive house.
Trump’s advocacy of this is an endorsement of tyranny. Sorry, but this is one of my long-held reservations about the man.
“no bar to your county government taking you house and land at a song”
The Constitution protects you against that and that Constitutional protection was not abrogated by the Kelo decision.
Eminent domain laws require market value reparations; most states have passed protective laws outlawing what you fear; the Supreme Court is the body that made the Kelo decision; Trump has never taken or advocated anyone having their property taken for a song; if Trump were president he still would have no authority over taking your property.
As Trump stated, he has plenty of property and doesn’t want anyone messing with it.
It is not your property that you should be worried about; your country and your freedom are already being taken from you as you haggle over a Supreme Court decision that Trump had nothing to do with. If amnesty comes in, you WILL be dispossessed of everything you have.
Trump never built any casinos in AC with eminant domain. The buildings were already there. This is a issue to people who want to distract from the real issues.