Free Association Constitutional Thoughts



Now that local governments can use Emminent Domain to seize private property for commercial use, what would stop them from doing so to give the property to Habitat for Humanity. Since if you believe they pitch they are more "common good" than commercial entity, but given the money they handle they should be a corporation. Heck maybe they, but I can't tell. Imagine losing your house so that Jimmy Carter can build another one.

Or if you want a real corporation....how about Disney/ABC. Perhaps a local government could seize property in order to give it to ABC so they could use it in their show Extreme Make-Over: Home Edition. If Jimmy Carter can have a house to give to the poor (oops, I mean middle class), why can't Mickey Mouse build one on seized land for advertise dollars? there is a whole lot of commercial enterprise going on in Prime Time!

Oh and another thing...when Extreme Make-Over: Home Edition takes a poor family, knocks down their house, and builds them a brand spanking new 3000+ sf/ft house, who is going to help pay the property taxes on the place? A lot of the time someone picks up the mortgage, but I doubt this includes the local taxes. When you double the size of your old crappy house with a nice shiny new one, your property taxes are going to go through the roof.

I suppose if you default on the taxes on a Extreme Make-Over: Home Edition house, the city could seize and give it to Jimmy....

Posted: Mon - June 27, 2005 at 08:17 PM          

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