Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Tax Revenue

Posted by Michael on June 25th, 2005 filed in Politics

The Supreme Court approved, by a 5-4 margin, to water down seriously the 5th Amendment.

No longer does the government have to prove a “public use” to confiscate property. Now it just has to develop a slick marketing campaign to prove that “well, the public would have wanted this anyway.”

What I find interesting is that the “liberal wing” of the Supreme Court, normally considered the protector of the little guys, sided with Pfizer.
More at OpinionJournal and Cox and Forkum.

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