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Eviction Notice
I always knew we were just renting our property from the government. (What happens if you don't pay your property taxes? You get evicted.) But, this is ridiculous. So now, any place Wal-Mart wants to build a new store and elects to take a few key city council members on golf outings and fact-finding missions to key areas like San Francisco or NYC, they'll get to evict your ass and build their stores wherever the fuck they please.
Really, all it takes is to have your brother be on the board of one of the development companies and already you're making decisions that benefit family at the expense of other poor sods who don't know anyone in the business.
Personally, we just dumped a ton of money into our home landscaping, and it's not officially recognized in the current value of the house. Between that and other upgrades that aren't 'officially included' in the value of the house, we'd stand to lose about 75 thousand dollars with a government buyout. Not that anyone would like to build a store in our little valley, but they might decide to run a golf course through here someday, and we'd have little to no recourse, except to get some new laws passed.
Sigh. I wonder how many abuses of this new ruling we'll have to see before someone does something about it. Fortunately, they're pissing off people who have a little bit of money, not just those who live in 'blight' and are at the mercy of whoever holds the purse strings. We'll see, I suppose.
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A comment:
I was actually somewhat surprised at the breakdown. Would have figured that Rehnquist, Scalia, et al would have taken the strict interpretation while Stevens and his crew would try to limit it with Kennedy or O'Connor playing swing.
Out here, the municipal government in a suburb of Minneapolis used their ED power to take the land of a car dealership because Best Buy wanted it for their new headquarters. Granted, it probably did the community more good and brought in substantial revenues to the city, but it leaves me wondering if this tactic will become much more common.
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