Property rights under attack
FreedomWorks
by Dick Armey
07/19/05
From the courts to Congress, American property rights are under siege from the socialists and the social engineers. In a decision better suited to Red China than the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that local governments can seize your private property and give it to other private owners, so long as the new owners offer a plan to generate more tax revenue, jobs, or even to just make the property look better. This outrageous decision, called Kelo v. New London, is sadly not out of the ordinary. Rather, this Supreme Court ruling is one event in a long and disturbing chain of policies that undermine property rights and the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution...
http://tinyurl.com/9zn82
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Dick Armey
07/19/05
From the courts to Congress, American property rights are under siege from the socialists and the social engineers. In a decision better suited to Red China than the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that local governments can seize your private property and give it to other private owners, so long as the new owners offer a plan to generate more tax revenue, jobs, or even to just make the property look better. This outrageous decision, called Kelo v. New London, is sadly not out of the ordinary. Rather, this Supreme Court ruling is one event in a long and disturbing chain of policies that undermine property rights and the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution...
http://tinyurl.com/9zn82
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 20. Jul, 13:55
