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Eminent domain is amazing. It should be used more often. The key is that the people whose property is being taken should be fairly compensated.


What’s “fair”? Who gets to chose that number? The developer? The government that stands to gain from larger tax revenue from the same property?

Sorry it’s a purely evil thing. Specifically designed to rid poor people of property to enrich the pockets of wealthier people. Hell, Donald Trump was the biggest cheerleader of its use in the ‘90s.




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