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Are governments circumventing the "just compensation" requirement?

March 03, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

Reason‘s A. Barton Hinkle has an article reporting on a clever — some would say cruel — scheme to abuse property owners that the Virginia Department of Transportation has developed. What’s the scheme? First, the agency announces that it is going to take your private property. Then it assesses the value of the taken property ...