most of us have no problem with eminent domain instituted by our govt for the use of public roads or highways, even public State Parks, or most things that are for Public use where the public benefits.Trump Gets Booed at Debate
Good for him! As he pointed out, the audience was not made up of run-of-the-mill NH voters but the ones who gave $$$$ to certain candidates or the GOP. (FactCheck.org says only 75 RNC donors were in the audience of 1000 and all candidates received an equal number of tickets)(And TheGateWayPundit reports that the Trump campaign only received 20 tickets!)
As for eminent domain – which should count – individual rights or the good of the whole? Without this legal move, a lot of things we take for granted would not exist. Do you drive to work on an Internet? It's probably there because some private property was taken in order to build it. Our country expanded due to the railroads and many of them were only built because they co-opted private holdings.
And how many of those who booed benefited from eminent domain? If you want the full story of the property referred to, go to Vera Coking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And here's a question nobody posed – how many times did Florida use eminent domain during Gov Bush's term of office?
And how many people who don't live in New Hampshire are going to be bused in to vote there?
HOWEVER, eminent domain used by our govt to take a private citizen's land to give it to another private citizen or corporation for their PROFIT, is highly unethical.