Reform Needed of the Endangered Species Act
Jennifer Biddison at Townhall.com discusses the human impact of the Endangered Species Act. Her column highlights the abuses of the ESA and the absence of compensation for regulation which has an enormous impact on the value of property. The ESA is badly in need of reform. The ESA unfairly burdens individual property owners with the cost of regulations of speculative benefit that could never be justified if the cost was being borne by the community as a whole. These private taxes will only be curtailed with a more robust application of the Fifth Amendment. If the federal government wants to appropriate private property for habitat, it should pay for it!