--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 6/24/05 11:23:12 A.M. Central
> Daylight Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> > A  little scary. It's also happening here in
> Hollywood
> > Florida  where  an owner will not sell four
> commercial
> > properties to a  developer who wants to put up a
> 19
> > story condo. The town is thinking  of using
> "eminent
> > domain" to force the sale. There's something  very
> > un-American and anti private property in this.  
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm just curious as to what BUSH supporters think of
>  all this...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eminent Domain has always been around  but was
> public use  like a new road or 
> highway or bridge or schools etc. It was never meant
> to be  for government to 
> take away privately owned property and sell it to
> another  private person/ 
> company to profit from.

But it seems like local town and state governments in
many locations are interpreting it this way. "Public
good" is now understood to include economic benefit
from an increased tax rate on the new building. 



> 


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