This new video from the Institute for Justice celebrates the backlash against the Supreme Court’s reprehensible Kelo decision that allowed politicians to seize private property for the benefit of commercial developers and other campaign contributors.
The best part of the video comes shortly before the three-minute mark, when the narrator notes that the corrupt politicians of New London, CT, have not received any additional tax revenue as a result of stealing SusetteĀ Kelo’s house. Sometimes, as I noted in an earlier blog entry, there is poetic justice.
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Thank you for publishing this info. We need to be aware of what the IRS is doing as well as other corruption from our government.
The obvious solution to the IRS is to eliminate it and replace it with a national sales tax.
It is time to Wake UP America to what is going on.
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