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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s PLENTY of brown-land in the North East that these maggots could acquire, they need not destroy food producing farmland to build their silly boutique cars.
Done all for nothing, because by and large EVs suck and will lead to Ford’s bankruptcy. So Tennessee will not get paid for all these tax abatements to Ford. But you cannot just blame Ford. Their brainless leaders see EVs as the future due to crap regulations from the Feds and various states. Such as Kali-Fornia that say no ICE vehicles can be sold there after 2035.
KaliFornia-— Kali is the many-armed female Hindu god of destruction
Do what they do......find a supposedly endangered animal, reptile or insect on the property.
Trump can help them with this.
I don’t see what race has to do with it. But what the hell, everything nowadays is about race.
If its WEST of Memphis the area is not even in TN anymore ...its Arkansas ...
BTW we went through this craziness before ...
A few years ago TN gave VW millions to entice them to build a factory in SE TN ...
We were promised many 1,000s of jobs but VW brought their own employees and expected us to educate the kids and give them lots of other goodies ...
Less than 2,000 jobs were left for Americans,,,no bennies ...
Thanks for nothing ex-Senator Bob Corker of TN ...
How much did they pay you ???