This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, July 13, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Eminent domain takings under the Fifth Amendment are but one way the government can deprive you of your property.

Regulatory takings often deprive people of myriad uses of their property, often with no compensation whatsoever.

Republican U.S. Representative Tom Reed of New York says regulatory

takings deserve far more attention than they get.

We're now 10 years since the Kilo decision.

So what do you believe to be the status of property rights in America specifically with respect to

eminent domain?

Yeah, this is a continuation of a flight.

For 10 years since the Kilo decision.

We just see a bigger and bigger encroachment

on our property rights across the country.

And I feel passionate that we need to unite as a country

to say enough is enough.

And we've got to stand with individuals and our

landowners for this fundamental constitutional right that is our property

rights and I just see a continued degradation of that right those rights as we go

forward with big government policy that's coming out of DC

and local levels. So many states responded to Kilo with some measure of

reform. Some of those reforms have more teeth than others. What has been over the past 10 years what was the

federal response?

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