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2005-09-07 Home Front: Economy

Lawmakers Seek to Yank Funds From Cities That Seize AG Land for Malls

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Come to suburban Chicago, we've been doing this for decades ...

I'm certain that stately White Manor would surely earn more revenue as the "Wheelus West Saloon" and Rantburg Retirement Villas...now who do I need to ~~bribe~~ call?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-07 00:30|| 2005-09-07 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Legalized theft at below market prices. Lawyers inventing new uses of the law to benefit lawyers. They have been doing this for years in California.
The best plan. Make it a violation of federal law with a minimum sentence of ten years and a in federal supermax prison and a 10 million dollar fine if property is siezed by the government under eminent domain and passed to a private party by any type sale, gift, loan or lease within 50 years of being condemned sized or aquired against the owners will.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-07 00:44|| 2005-09-07 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Seizure is one scam. The usual trick was for the local political body in charge to rezone the agricultural land to residential/retail, then re-assess the farmland like it was already full of L-shaped ranch houses and cul-de-sacs and strip malls. The farmer could no longer make the tax payments and the friendly neighborhood developer would arrive to save the day and buy the land off the farmer.

Believe me, I'm not putting down suburbia. I grew up in one for over half my childhood, live in one and will probably die in a suburb. I like it. But these shenanigans have been going on since Bob Moses built the first projects in NYC and Levitt built Levittown. The only thing that's changed is that the Internet is allowing us to compare notes. In the last fifteen years, I've seen with my own two eyes a lot of working poor (_not_ welfare bums) driven out of their homes using these tactics. I'm sick of it and hope that others are starting to see the light, too.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-09-07 00:54|| 2005-09-07 00:54|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW, why do you think the MSM has been silent about these gross abuses of power for the last 50 years? There are a hell of a lot of ads for real estate and retail stores in your local paper...

Posted by 11A5S 2005-09-07 00:59|| 2005-09-07 00:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The O-club in one of the bluest 'burbs in a blue state? Better build a high fence ...

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-09-07 01:52|| 2005-09-07 01:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Haven't you heard? Congress is unnecessary. The Federal Courts have overturn legislation that denies federal monies to schools that don't permit recruiters, the lower courts so far have sided with the complaintants. Some states and cities just have to find the right judge and no matter what is passed, the feds will directed to pay. We have our barons and dukes running us now. Congress is a coward for not removing this modern royalty from the bench and surrendering their power of the purse. Now its just all show and acting upon the Hill.

Posted by Gleamble Claviter9685 2005-09-07 09:41|| 2005-09-07 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 11A5S is right. This was going on well before this ruling (through re-zoning). Rezoning hearings are some of the most interesting, heated debates I've ever seen in my life. The Supremes have just gone 1 step further and allow it to happen "legally" now. And, any attempt to withold fed funds will be challenged in court and beat, you can bet on that. I completely stupifies me as to how such CLEAR worded language (of the 5th Amendment) has been sooooo skewed by the "enlightened ones."

Posted by BA 2005-09-07 09:54|| 2005-09-07 09:54|| Front Page Top

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