Fedgov Trying to Steal Family Farm in VT

[Sbane]

I feel for the Rainvilles, but this is exactly the sort of thing that eminent domain is supposed to be used for.  Now if the government were using it get the land to build a shopping center for Canadians taking advantage of the strong loonie, I'd be upset, but not with an expanded border station.

So you think stealing a family farm to build some government police station is justified?

For the last time YES.

You don't have to keep drawing it out after every "there's nothing wrong with this."

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$39,500 an acre is probably a lot more than that struggling old farm is worth.  If anything, these guys are stealing from the government.

Please go read the Constitution before you use it to defend things that defy it.

That is a disgusting sentiment. Perhaps they will come for your property next.

As long as you are being compensated, who cares? Now of course a lot of these places have special attachments to people and that cannot be paid off by the government. So yeah, it's not a black or white issue. But usually if the owners are compensated properly, I don't mind.

[Sbane]

I feel for the Rainvilles, but this is exactly the sort of thing that eminent domain is supposed to be used for.  Now if the government were using it get the land to build a shopping center for Canadians taking advantage of the strong loonie, I'd be upset, but not with an expanded border station.

So you think stealing a family farm to build some government police station is justified?

For the last time YES.

You don't have to keep drawing it out after every "there's nothing wrong with this."

You must be logged in to read this quote.

$39,500 an acre is probably a lot more than that struggling old farm is worth.  If anything, these guys are stealing from the government.

Please go read the Constitution before you use it to defend things that defy it.

That is a disgusting sentiment. Perhaps they will come for your property next.

As long as you are being compensated, who cares? Now of course a lot of these places have special attachments to people and that cannot be paid off by the government. So yeah, it's not a black or white issue. But usually if the owners are compensated properly, I don't mind.

When a robber robs you, it doesn't matter that he gives you something else to take away that you valued less than what was stolen.

A robber usually gives you something in exchange? Do you even live in the real world?

[Sbane]

I feel for the Rainvilles, but this is exactly the sort of thing that eminent domain is supposed to be used for.  Now if the government were using it get the land to build a shopping center for Canadians taking advantage of the strong loonie, I'd be upset, but not with an expanded border station.

So you think stealing a family farm to build some government police station is justified?

For the last time YES.

You don't have to keep drawing it out after every "there's nothing wrong with this."

You must be logged in to read this quote.

$39,500 an acre is probably a lot more than that struggling old farm is worth.  If anything, these guys are stealing from the government.

Please go read the Constitution before you use it to defend things that defy it.

That is a disgusting sentiment. Perhaps they will come for your property next.

If they offered to buy my car for more money than my car is worth, I'd gladly invite them to come for my property.  I bet there's plenty of home owners right now that would take more than market value for their house right now.

It's not like their stealing their farm, either.  They're taking five freaking acres and paying that family probably more money than they'd earn off of it in 10 years of cultivating.

Well, maybe due to the loss of that acre they won't be able to run the farm in the most efficient way. I suspect they would just have to change the way they run things to again make it efficient. In the worst case they might have to sell the farm. It would be sad but they still get more than compensated for their property.