Tags: Eminent Domain

That Nets money he's rapping about, the government helped with that

The justices consider an "outdated" New Deal-era farm control law.

Eminent domain abuse

It's customary, when discussing eminent domain, to allow that it's a necessary use of state power that enhances the good of the community, before then going on to discuss whatever horrendous abuse is being committed this week through the application of the government's ability to take private property for "public use."

Politicians, city planners, and developers have long argued that without the power to seize property from unwilling sellers economic development would grind to a halt.

Making life easier for government is not a good reason to infringe individual rights.