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WATCH: ReasonTV’s John Stossel On The Government Seizing Your Property Using ‘Eminent Domain’

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On Tuesday, ReasonTV uploaded a new video featuring John Stossel. The topic of the video is “eminent domain.”

Is your property yours? Not if government takes it — and it can for what it calls public use. Eminent domain law has long allowed politicians to grab your property to build roads, railroad tracks, border walls.

… I get it that a highway or a border wall is public use, but 13 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that New London, Connecticut could bulldoze this little pink house to make room for a new business development.

Stossel then spoke about Susette Kelo, the owner of the home, whose story has been made into a major motion picture titled “Little Pink House.” In the film, Catherine Keener portrays Kelo.

The law does require the government to give you “fair value” for your property, but the bureaucrats decide what fair value is. … Susette Kelo didn’t want the money. She wanted to keep her home, but the government said no. So the bulldozers came. 90 families left. Susette and six others refused to leave.

According to Stossel, “a libertarian law firm, the Institute for Justice, took Susette’s case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where Justice Sandra Day O’Connor pushed back against the taking.” However, “the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Susette.”

Stossel then noted that following the ruling, multiple states “passed laws limiting their politicians’ right to grab your property.”

Years later, I went with Susette Kelo to look at the place New London said was gonna be a booming development … even today, 13 years later, there’s no development. It’s just unused land. The politicians were wrong.

Watch the full video here:

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