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Originally Posted by chickentribs
My point was that I believe relocating people may be the better alternative if GM wants the land bad enough, and your city needs the jobs. Flint raised its corporate income tax rate .05% on GM by a Mayor who thought there was nothing they could do about it. 6 mos. later GM was gone, 1 year later no one had a house left in Flint anyway. I am sure Detroit paid close attention.
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But the use of eminent domain is not 'relocating people'. That is a term to make it less offensive than it really is and is intellectually dishonest. Every city needs jobs but allowing the government to be manipulated by corporate entities to force people to sell their homes on prime real estate is already having a corrupt government and NO ownership society at all. How secure in our citizens property rights can anyone be if at the signing of a document we can be forced to accept whatever 'just' offer from the government and have to find new homes? On top of that, what happens when theres no more private land to buy, when its all being used for 'jobs'????
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