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Originally posted by eple
"Oh shit! The government is going crazy! Today, a forced lease, tomorrow they'll take my bank account and spend it all on saving trees or something! AAAHHH!!!!"
*picturing Utswo with tin foil hat putting savings in mattress*
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The issue with this particular example of a government overstepping its bounds is that it is creating, from thin air, a contract which did not exist before.
There are many, many, other examples of abuse of eminent domain by requisitioning PRIVATE land in order to sell it to other PRIVATE companies to use for development. There is a slippery slope when it comes to the power of the government to sieze property, all it takes is a thoroughly corrupt government to slide down it.