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To: A Conservative Thinker
Property rights are extremely important to me

The courts have long since held that public use is the furtherance of the public interest. Atlantic City has been in poor governance for some time. They didn't allow for sufficient parking. If the sole tax base were casinos, then the public interest was in expanding parking. Buying up older homes with fair compensation is legal and completely within precedent.

Your 'fancy limousine' comment shows your real motive here.

58 posted on 02/07/2016 8:48:15 AM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: Lagmeister

No, I’ve been following your blithering rationales that obliterate the scope and intent of the takings clause under the 5th Amendment with much disdain and your blatant dishonesty is troubling regarding your claim that government can confiscate private property from party a and transfer it to party b or in other words your private home can be taken to make way for a Motel 6 if a bureaucrat can find an economic benefit. No amount of sophistry can overcome the meaning and purpose of ‘public use’. Also, I stand by indignation regarding the effort to seize Vera Coking’s private property so The Donald has limousine parking for a casino. I would question your motive in defending such confiscation.


71 posted on 02/07/2016 9:38:36 AM PST by A Conservative Thinker
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