Users Online Now:
983
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
324,520
Pageviews Today:
491,485
Threads Today:
191
Posts Today:
2,453
05:43 AM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
Eminent Domain
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:Anonymous Coward 66399736:MV8zMTAwNDUwXzU1MjQ4NjgzXzZBNDM2RDVD] [quote:Bodiless:MV8zMTAwNDUwXzU1MjQ3Njg3XzM1NERCOTEz] [quote:zacksavage:MV8zMTAwNDUwXzU1MjQ0MjYyX0NFMTg2NzIw] [quote:Bodiless:MV8zMTAwNDUwXzU1MjQyMzEyX0E1RjBDNDBD] No boundaries. Right. Not sure where on this Earth that is, but good luck finding that place. The world does not dance to any one person's drum. Wait--there is one place that has no boundries. Antarctica. I think, by international convention. [/quote] I guess the further point I had to make, was that as massive amounts of wealth has been welfared/extorted into the hands of fewer and fewer people. Public spaces have dried up into nothing. Don't know if you've been to Zion in Utah, but used to be able to go there and group camp around campfires and have grand old time with folks. Now that valley is off-limits to general public and 100 dollar a night bungalows with little golf carts full of scumbags and their loved ones control the area. One has to pay 20 bucks and be trammed in. Sucks. When I left California, the beaches in my area were 25 bucks a night no showers. 200 thousand dollar winnebegos with direct TV overtook throw down campers that could no longer pay the freight. I could list quite a few similar situations but why btother,.. If you are rabid over Trump, you would never understand the concept of free spirit Bodiless. Eminent domain is bullshit all the way around IMO. Z [/quote] Zack, I can appreciate your viewpoint. Perhaps my perspective is just a bit longer than yours. I remember California in the late 70's. It is vastly different now--same with much of the PacNW. Utah was one of the choicest states I had ever been thru(din't stay, just drove thru) America has swelled in size four fold since then. Not just in people, but in business as well. Without eminent domain there would be no infrastructure, no nothing. Everything in life has both a good side and a bad side. I too had a "free spirit" once. Then I settled down, as they call it, and went about making the life I wanted. I dare say I have a "free spirit" now as well. The difference is I can pay for what I want, go where I want, when I want, and most importantly, how I want. [/quote] It figures you're with "Starfleet". The gov't has NO right to take property from people who bought that property for themselves to give to developers to build houses. None. They may have made up that "right" with their bought and paid for judicial system, but in reality it is simply doing what the commies do. [/quote]
Original Message
Eminent domain is used by the government and wealthy individuals. Pipelines, casinos, stadiums, beach front property and for ransom against government for BIG $$.
In California tech billionaire Vinod Khosla bought a beachfront property in 2008 and closed the only road to get to Martins beach essentially making it private. After an eight-year legal battle Khosla said he would re-open the road if the state paid him 30 million dollars. The state has refused his offer and has not used Eminent Domain to re-claim the road, which raises the question, why isn't Eminent Domain used to take property from the wealthy?
Donald loves Eminent Domain. He explains that property owners get 3 or 4 times the value when selling their property but what he doesn't say is what profit the wealthy make from using Eminent Domain.
We live in a world of haves and have nots and apparently the haves have got much better lawyers.
[
link to www.youtube.com (secure)
]
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>