In Colorado, you can get two errors for the price of one--though at a very steep price.

Writing for the Independence Institute, Kate Melvin says the RTD, a Denver-area transit authority, is abusing its power of eminent domain.

The problem is not RTD creating yet another rail line that won't pay for itself. Eminent domain does allow for the construction of public facilities. What it should not allow for, and what RTD wants to use it for, is to take property from a private party for "economic development" purposes that sound a lot like taking from one business owner and giving to another, all in the pursuit of a grand vision of social and economic engineering.

That's no way to run a railroad.