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A Missouri judge has postponed a vote over restricting eminent domain use because the proponents can not tell him how much it will cost government. So let me get this straight. The government has been seizing property at below market rates from individuals. If you or I did that it would be stealing.

People say that their government should not do that. Lets amend the law with a referendum. Sounds reasonable.

Then a judge gets up and says you can not have your vote because I do not know how much more it would cost the government? This is the level of absurdity (or corruption) coming from our judiciary.

All people are asking for is just compensation, your honor. If you can not see that, get the hell off the  bench, because you are either too damn incompetent or corrupt to see the forest through the trees.

Judge Byron Kinder on Monday upheld the ballot summary prepared by the secretary of state’s office. But he ruled that the auditor’s financial impact statement, a summary of which also appears on the ballot, was ‘‘insufficient and unfair’’ and must be revised.

The summary of the original financial estimate states: ‘‘The total fiscal impact to state government is unknown, but estimated to exceed $100,000. The fiscal impact to local government is unknown.’’

The lawsuit noted that only one of the six local governmental entities surveyed about the financial impact responded to the auditor’s office. The lawsuit claimed the ballot measure ‘‘would impose significant and quantifiable costs on local governmental entities’’ — both because of the eminent domain restrictions and the new obligation to compensate property owners for zoning and land-use regulations.

Joe Martin, McCaskill’s director of administration, said the office would again try to get cost estimates from the five governments that didn’t respond and would send surveys to additional governments.

Lake Sun Leader.

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4. Georgia Legislature Works to Restrict Eminent Domain
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