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that the Kelo decision, given a reality of corrupt or easily corrupted local government especially in rural Red States, in the present probably swung power too much. This sort of amendment perhaps pushes things too far the other way- poor landholders sell anyway, as a reality, so the unreasonable resisters tend to be relatively wealthy and their essential intent tends to be to drive up the 'fair market value'.
In short, this probably does nothing much to help poor people who happen do to have desirable land, but it helps wealthy landholders drive the price up. This is also a setup for Dennis Hastert type of land deals, a very old game in local town and municipal government and the families who run them.
That game is you find out, via inside connections, about what buildings the government wants to buy or what land it wants to build a freeway over. Usually the government planners are humane and propose to buy pretty worthless land the owners are glad to sell or teardown buildings, so they tend to be cheap. You quickly buy them first for a song. Then you charge, uh, a significant markup when the highway people contact you. They know what you're doing, of course, from looking at the property sale record. But bureaucratic inertia is great and a lot of plans and promises have to be revised if they decide to put the highway or offices any other place. Not to mention the cost of the delay in time. But they can't prove that you got inside info and acted on it deliberately, and generally it isn't even strictly illegal. Then you get a buddy to 'reassess' the property at some ludicrously high value and squeeze them some more.
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