As we were busy fighting annexation and incentives, the Supreme Court (as blogged by Jon and Joe) has effectively nixed any “pursuit of happiness” that might involve you owning property if an Economic Developer wants it more.
A bit more of the dissent by O’Connor, “Under the banner of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner. . “
Maybe we should consider using Emminent Domain to give Puerto Rico to Donald Trump in the name of job creation and economic development.
