{"id":519,"date":"2016-04-08T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/04\/08\/interim-does-the-economic-impact-of-texas-high-speed-rail-support-eminent-domain\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:32:00","slug":"interim-does-the-economic-impact-of-texas-high-speed-rail-support-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/interim-does-the-economic-impact-of-texas-high-speed-rail-support-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM. Does the Economic Impact of Texas High Speed Rail Support Eminent Domain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What great economic gains does Texas Central Rail points to with high speed rail?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$36 billion economic impact over 25 years<\/li>\n<li>TCR will pay $2.5 billion in taxes to state, counties and local governments<\/li>\n<li>The $10 billion project is a job creator, providing 10,000 jobs a year during the four-year construction phase and an additional 1,000 jobs, once the train is in operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does Grimes County Judge say about economic benefits and the impact to eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0Irrelevant. &#8220;The power of eminent domain is not granted based on how many jobs or taxes are generated by a company.\u201d-\u00a0Ben Leman, Grimes County judge and chairman for Texans Against High Speed Rail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebatt.com\/science-technology\/urban-rural-parts-of-texas-draw-further-apart-on-high\/article_57e191fc-fc81-11e5-8dbd-3b1f0730188b.html\">The Battalion |\u00a0<strong>Urban, rural parts of Texas draw further apart on high speed rail<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What great economic gains does Texas Central Rail points to with high speed rail?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$36 billion economic impact over 25 years<\/li>\n<li>TCR will pay $2.5 billion in taxes to state, counties and local governments<\/li>\n<li>The $10 billion project is a job creator, providing 10,000 jobs a year during the four-year construction phase and an additional 1,000 jobs, once the train is in operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does Grimes County Judge say about economic benefits and the impact to eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0Irrelevant. &#8220;The power of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,9,17,50,14,28,2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-compensation","category-easement","category-federal-government","category-legislation-trend","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}