[Calvin Locke]

The power to tax is the power to destroy. The "public purpose" that Bader-Gingsberg and whathisname from NH, Souter, harped on was the alleged increased property taxes as the "public purpose".

I'm disagreeing that Kelo was decided correctly.

The pro-judges saying effectively saying that if the "victims" don't like it, they could vote the the perpetrating rascals out.

[Carry_Okie]

The power to tax is the power to destroy. The "public purpose" that Bader-Gingsberg and whathisname from NH, Souter, harped on was the alleged increased property taxes as the "public purpose".

State governments have the legal power to tax, upon the limits of which the Constitution is mute.

Read the article I linked; then comment. This isn't about whether you like what the City of New London did or not; it is about whether it was within their legal authority.