[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 23 19:15:36 PDT 2005


joanna said:


> "Cities may bulldoze people's homes to make way for shopping malls or
> other private development, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday,
> giving local governments broad power to seize private property to
> generate tax revenue."
>

That oughta tick the conservatives off.

My instincts say that's a good thing.

The issue would seem to be a "doesn't matter" for people who don't own property. Urban re-development of all the major metro areas around the U.S. has been tearing down perfectly good housing for a long, long time, and not often to the benefit of the poor folks that usually lived there.

Leigh

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