... I’m glad to hear that none of you Cruz supporters use anything that was built or created using eminent domain.
I think that is a great moral stand and I respect it.
I respect your right to believe that eminent domain was NOT used by DT to simply screw others and make money though clearly it was. Not the same as government taking to build roads.
They know this.
The problem is their guy Trump has zero problem sticking it to the little guy to line the pockets of his buddies by using the government to enforce such wealth transfer.
It’s one thing for a public road owned by the public after the transaction is complete. It’s completely different when it’s a greedy businessman doing it to avoid paying more than he is wanting for the land...
Must be nice to back a candidate who has no problem, and whom actually supports government sponsored theft of ones land, as long as it’s for the good of a pious land developer and the community as a whole.
I know if a country back in the 30s which took private land gave it to another private individual for the good of the public as well... Didn’t work out so well in the end though...
I respect your right to believe that eminent domain was NOT used by DT to simply screw others and make money though clearly it was. Not the same as government taking to build roads.
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Local governments will identify target areas for redevelopment to encourage developers and businesses to come to a blighted area to create jobs and new improvements.
“Yet many urban-affairs experts view the developers as saviors of our postindustrial cities. ‘With manufacturing leaving,’ says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University, ‘and with Federal and state aid diminishing, our cities desperately need the rich. Cities are tending to fall into two categories: cities of consumption and cities with no economic base.” http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/magazine/the-expanding-empire-of-donald-trump.html?pagewanted=all
This is an interesting article about Trump and the predates Trump’s move into Atlantic City. Without eminent domain you would have great difficulty doing redevelopment projects in older cities due to not only single holdouts, but also because of ground leases that lie underneath many of the old buildings in downtown, eastern areas, a real estate ownership holdover from England. On a ground lease the building owner does not own the land underneath. Without eminent domain, you cannot get the building down even if the land owner wants to sell their land.
City dwellers that live in blighted areas of an eastern city have a much different perspective on this issue. The owners of the property get paid more than fair value for their property.
As a side note: Ask the Duke of Westminister who controls land redevelopment in London.