Both Bush and Trump are WRONG.
AMERICANS shouldn’t forfeit their God given Property Rights so greedy governments and the Crony Capitalist pals can seize properties for profit and tax revenue.
If the property was abandoned or the owner isn’t paying property tax that is one case. The idea the government is free to prey on people who aren’t rich to benefit crony capitalist is repulsive and in American.
AMERICANS shouldn’t forfeit their God given Property Rights so greedy governments and the Crony Capitalist pals can seize properties for profit and tax revenue.
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The Keystone pipeline is a private for profit enterprise for a Canadian corporation that will use eminent domain to be built - it is not like a public highway or a public bridge as some of the liars state about it when this is brought up like Bush lied.
The Keystone pipeline may even be made exempt from taxes and there will be no profit sharing with the communities it will go through.
If you hold your position for the Keystone pipeline then I salute your view. If you try and argue that the Keystone pipeline is different then I would have to think otherwise about your view.
You are making a logic error in conflating the two situations. One case of eminent domain was for a casino parking garage, which would have been owned by a private party who would have been the sole beneficiary of any profit or use of the facility.
The second case was a public agency (a public university) using eminent domain for a library that is owned and operated by the university. Roads, school and libraries are just the type of "public use" projects envisioned by the Constitution for eminent domain cases. The fact that it was a Presidential library is really irrelevant as far as the Constitutional issue goes.
“Both Bush and Trump are WRONG.”
Perhaps.
But Bush is a hypocrite, Trump is not.
That old woman was offered a million $ by Trump. She turned it down, then the city condemned the shack and she wound up with less than half that amount. Trump wasn’t greedy, she was!
Why should there ever be tax on your homestead? You can never own anything, you can only rent from the government, they just don't call it rent, they call it property taxes.