Posted on 04/08/2023 6:33:56 AM PDT by george76
NO! PSTUPID IDEA!
Something is wrong with the background of this story. A person who owns land “just west of Memphis” is in Arkansas … or at the bottom of the Mississippi River.
Unlawful seizure? Oh, duh! Stoopid constitution and stuff.
First thing I noticed...west of Memphis???
Forgive my lack of geographical knowledge...west of Memphis? isnt that Arkansas? I drive though on I55 a bit, and Memphis, TN, an West Memphis, AR straddle the Mississippi...so Im just wondering.
“...truck and battery plant to be built in rural Tennessee just west of Memphis...”
The value of the property is certainly worthy of dispute, but acquiring land to build a public road is one of the most benign and non-controversial applications of eminent domain power you’ll find today.
Maybe it got reversed or full of amendments to make it virtually useless, but the general assembly passed laws to protect the local landowner from politically converted thieves from stealing their land because the new mall would generate more taxes thus be “a general welfare”
Guess we were fooled....again.
I believe it’s northeast of Memphis. The labor and workforce in Memphis is unusable. I think it’s about 75 miles from Memphis.
Either way I think Ford will fold before the plant is ever finished.
There are those who wonder........ will there still be a Ford Motor company by the time the plant is actually operational?
Anyone know what use they put the Saturn factory towards?
The writer doesn’t know east or west, the location is north east of Memphis.
I beat you by 12 seconds.
Unusable.......unusable? Memphis is Baltimore on the Mississippi. There are thousands of workers equal to those in Deetroit
battery plant will be in a massive new complex in Stanton, Tennessee called Blue Oval City. will cover more than 3,600 acres.
Ping
Going back to the Depression and TVA, Tennessee has been more Platonic than Aristotelian in its concept of property rights, meaning that if the gubmint thinks your property can be doing something better than you’re doing with it, it will buy your property whether or not you want to sell it, and do with it what it thinks is better.
Same thing with Arkansas; my “ancestral” home is at the bottom of Lake Catherine, and not because nature put it there. It was a common occurrence, cf. the 1960 movie “Wild River” where the eminent domain was exercised for the public good. What makes the EV issue easy is that no one has to build an EV factory at a specific place, so there is only grift, no other reason.
$3,750 per acre. is just pure thief.
You couldn’t get any land for that price unless it’s Texas scrubland.
Our cousins got $35,00 per acre for their part of our family farm... And the could have got $40,00 but they are the stupid branch of the family and took the first offer of the developer.
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