Eminent Domain

The government can take your property-it's in the Constitution. They have to compensate you and it has to be for public use. Does that make it okay? At it's purest, eminent domain, taking property to make a school, a library, and so on, it's fine. But when people get kicked off their land to make room for a car dealership, a new housing development, because it generates tax revenue, that's not. If people get kicked out of their houses to beef up the city's wallet, they better be given a new house, not just cash, for their trouble.