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Our Enemy, The State of New York
The Institute for Justice has released a blockbuster new study entitled Building Empires, Destroying Homes: Eminent Domain Abuse in New York, which chronicles the Empire State's infuriating and deeply alarming disregard for property rights. From the introduction:
New York is perhaps the worst state in the nation when it comes to eminent domain abuse—the forcible acquisition of private property by the government for private development. Over the past decade, a host of government jurisdictions and agencies statewide have condemned or threatened to condemn homes and small businesses for the New York Stock Exchange, The New York Times, IKEA, Costco, and Stop & Shop. An inner-city church lost its future home to eminent domain for commercial development that never came to pass. Scores of small business owners have been threatened with seizure for a private university in Harlem and for office space in Queens and Syracuse. Older homes were on the chopping block near Buffalo, simply so newer homes could be built. From Montauk Point to Niagara Falls, every community in the Empire State is subject to what the U.S. Supreme Court has accurately called the "despotic power." This enthusiasm for eminent domain is encouraged by the New York courts, which habitually rubber-stamp condemnations and seem to consider any kind of private undertaking a public use.
Get a downloadable version here.
Yesterday, I discussed the eminent domain abuse behind the Atlantic Yards boondoggle in Brooklyn, and in February I examined Columbia University's shameful use of state power to grab land in Harlem. Both cases are detailed here, along with far too many more.
|10.9.09 @ 12:26PM|#
New York state, as a whole, has some of the most oppressive laws, taxes, and policies in the nation. I blame the Dutch.
John Tagliaferro|10.9.09 @ 12:42PM|#
I did not know they were Nazis. I hate New York Nazis and Old York Nazis too!
|10.9.09 @ 1:08PM|#
I am probably the only person here who will get a George R.R. Martin reference. Well done, sir. I tip my jester's cap to you, and then stab my father in the intestines.
|10.9.09 @ 1:33PM|#
Technically, in Runequest, crossbow bolts do piercing damage just like sword points, so...fuck you.
NERD FIGHT
|10.9.09 @ 1:35PM|#
Runequest? Don't you mean CAKE FIGHT?
Please don't hug me too hard. I'm not a rabbit.
|10.9.09 @ 12:57PM|#
Oh, come on!
How will we ever have grandiose large-scale centrally planned
developments if the government planners cannot exercise their
empathic superpowers to determine the best possible outcome for
the greatest number of subjects constituents?
Mike Laursen|10.9.09 @ 1:38PM|#
As a Californian, I have to admit it makes me feel better to hear it's not just our state that's all fucked up.
Punk|10.9.09 @ 1:56PM|#
But now that Barry done gots da Nobel Prize, at least they'll rape the citizens "peacefully". (non sequitur notwithstanding)
|10.9.09 @ 2:56PM|#
Older homes were on the chopping block near Buffalo, simply so newer homes could be built.
Government job production at it's finest.
BakedPenguin|10.9.09 @ 2:58PM|#
Where are the Tudors when you need them?
Stemming the tide of Spanish pornography! Hurrah, Sir Philip Sidney!
Rhywun|10.9.09 @ 4:31PM|#
As a Californian, I have to admit it makes me feel better to hear it's not just our state that's all fucked up.
As a New Yorker, I have to admit it makes me feel better to hear it's not just our state that's all fucked up.
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