Eminent Domain - NC
Get ready to lose more property rights in North Carolina. A committee is meeting to discuss eminent domain. Here's some anti-freedom quotes:
I don't think there's a single person here that wants to disrupt progress with our governments. -Wilma Sherrill, R-Buncombe
Nope, there isn't. Only because you don't have anyone at your meeting that believes there is such a thing as property rights, apparently. Government and progress in the same sentence just don't go together.
We want to be sure that whatever we do ... that we don't take away the good things that can now be accomplished in North Carolina Lucy Allen, D-Franklin
Left off of that sentence was the implied, "at the expense of individuals and liberty." Government isn't doing good things when they steal from individuals. These people meeting clearly hate property rights and believe that government is the end-all be-all determiner of the use of all land in the state. These people suck eggs.
State law allows local governments to condemn private property that's considered a community blight because it harms the health and safety or economic well-being of those surrounding it. -Legislative Staff
So, in other words, New London can VERY EASILY happen in North Carolina. All a government has to do is decide that a certain section of privately owned land will harm the economic well-being of those around it by not being a manufacturing facility or a building of condos -- and then the government can take it. If you support freedom and property rights, you simply cannot support this crop of
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I think you know where I stand on this subject. If you don't, lets just say I have a nice stockpile of lead, blackpowder and modern bullets.
Posted by: Contagion at January 10, 2006 01:29 PM (Q5WxB)
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I hope it's a big stockpile...and if it's not, I'll bring you more.
Posted by: Ogre at January 10, 2006 02:02 PM (/k+l4)
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The legislative staffer you quote is trying to pull off some verbal legerdemain.
I don't have a problem with calling property that demonstrably harms the health and safety of those nearby as "blighted", though the use of eminent domain is not the first approach to solving the problem that would have occurred to me.
It's the "economic well-being" part that goes off the track. It's defining deviance up, so to speak. It's obvious code language for "you're not producing enough taxes for your neighbors," the argument underlying most misuse of eminent domain.
I don't have a problem with calling property that demonstrably harms the health and safety of those nearby as "blighted", though the use of eminent domain is not the first approach to solving the problem that would have occurred to me.
It's the "economic well-being" part that goes off the track. It's defining deviance up, so to speak. It's obvious code language for "you're not producing enough taxes for your neighbors," the argument underlying most misuse of eminent domain.
Posted by: Kent at January 10, 2006 07:02 PM (GSLcH)
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The legislative staffer is showing that in the world of the NC Legislature, there is no such thing as property rights, no matter the reason!
Posted by: Ogre at January 10, 2006 10:44 PM (s2+Ck)
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