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Why is the OP totally wrong?
This is the one and only legitimate use of the Commerce Clause.
Are you even vaguely familiar with Kelo decision?
Just a curious point to me since they claim to support private rights and resent the govt taking and regulating land.
This is the one and only legitimate use of the Commerce Clause.
Are you even vaguely familiar with Kelo decision?
This is the one and only legitimate use of the Commerce Clause.
Are you even vaguely familiar with Kelo decision?
for a private corporation to take your land for private profit?
So you do not support the XL pipeline taking land?
Same difference they have eternal access accross your land anytime they want and you cannot build on/use that land and you still pay taxes on it.
Just a curious point to me since they claim to support private rights and resent the govt taking and regulating land.
I'm torn. I detest the notion of the government confiscating privately held land. however do you as an individual have the right to cut off your neighbors from power or water etc etc, simply because you own adjacent land?
So you do not support the XL pipeline taking land?
Same difference they have eternal access accross your land anytime they want and you cannot build on/use that land and you still pay taxes on it.
That is a close call. Is the XL pipeline a public use? Is there a reasonable alternative option for the pipeline? Are they asking for the land, or a right of way across the land?
I would accept that the XL pipeline is a public service, no different that any other public utility. States commonly designate right of ways for electric transmission lines, sewer lines, water lines, gas lines, etc.
I oppose the government taking property because another owner will contribute more taxes to the government. But, the supreme court, in their superior wisdom, disagrees.
This is the one and only legitimate use of the Commerce Clause.
Are you even vaguely familiar with Kelo decision?
I'm torn. I detest the notion of the government confiscating privately held land. however do you as an individual have the right to cut off your neighbors from power or water etc etc, simply because you own adjacent land?
This is the one and only legitimate use of the Commerce Clause.
Are you even vaguely familiar with Kelo decision?
Wait what? You think it's a legitimate use of the commerce clause for a private foreign company to obtain common carrier status in Texas and thus take private property by government decree in order to route a pipeline shipping Canadian tar sands to Houston to export around the world?
Can you explain how that benefits the common good?