In a 5-4 decision, the court upheld the ability of New London, Conn., to seize people's homes to make way for an office, residential and retail complex supporting a new $300 million research facility of the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. The city had argued that the project served a public use within the meaning of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution because it would increase tax revenues, create jobs and improve the local economy.
New London is almost void of jobs and has no economy to speak of, now that the Navy has pulled out. I understand the principle of pushing a few people from their homes. Point taken. Yet once they are done living there, the town will be abandoned without any real business.
So the wishes of a handful of people takes priority over an entire region ? Plus the rest of the county has to pay higher taxes just to placate a few people ? A dying region is in need of this boost.
Sometimes, situations arise that need tweeking for a good reason.