The Kelo Decision - Should your house belong to you, or to the lounge lizard who bribed and seduced your city council? Eminent Domain takings should be limited to traditional public purposes. Your house should belong to you. Governments should be forbidden to use eminent domain to seize your house and give it to a developer or sports team. If your home is taken for a legitimate public purpose, the fair value of the property should include your emotional loss and the cost of your time and effort to relocate. As a rule of thumb, tripling the market value of the property might give a fair payment.
The Environment - We the American people own vast amounts of land in the form of National Forests, National Wildernesses, and other Federal lands. We should be its stewards, leaving our descendants a patrimony that is more valuable than the one we inherited from our forefathers. In some states, the amount of Federal Land exceeds all reason or need, has no unique beauty or value, and should very gradually be auctioned off. We, the American people, own the air we breathe and the navigable waterways. There is no more a right to vent poisons into our air and water than there is to dump toxic waste on your front lawn. When someone poisons your lawn, they are obliged to clean up the mess, and the same goes for our air and water. It's a property rights issue.
