Remember Kelo v. New London?

[Theophylact]

The "eminent domain" case that allowed a city to confiscate private property and give it over to a private company, because commercial development would supposedly be a public benefit?

Yesterday:

“Look what they did,” Mr. Cristofaro said on Thursday. “They stole our home for economic development. It was all for Pfizer, and now they get up and walk away.”

That sentiment has been echoing around New London since Monday, when Pfizer, the giant drug company, announced it would leave the city just eight years after its arrival led to a debate about urban redevelopment that rumbled through the United States Supreme Court, and reset the boundaries for governments to seize private land for commercial use.

Pfizer said it would pull 1,400 jobs out of New London within two years and move most of them a few miles away to a campus it owns in Groton, Conn., as a cost-cutting measure. It would leave behind the city’s biggest office complex and an adjacent swath of barren land that was cleared of dozens of homes to make room for a hotel, stores and condominiums that were never built.

"Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish."

[SiliconJon]

How dare you insult dolphins like that!

[tony_j15]

I see they got up and left just before their property tax deal was set to expire.

[pickel]

I don't how many BIG BS Corps sucked in the ignorant politicians of Mississippi and the people wind paying their ticket. I want a tax credit for paying taxes and supporting their stupidity.