Swordsmyth
06-27-2017, 04:34 PM
Did you know that the federal government owns 28 percent of all land in the United States?
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Today, the feds control approximately 640 million acres of land, and after decades of very poor management, many are calling on the states to take a larger role. This is particularly true in the 11 western states where the federal government collectively owns 47 percent (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government-owns-so-much-land-in-the-west.html) of all land. East of the Mississippi River, the feds only own 4 percent (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government-owns-so-much-land-in-the-west.html) of all land, and there is no reason for such a disparity to exist. In Connecticut and Iowa, the federal government only owns 0.3 percent of all land. Such an arrangement seems to work very well for those states, and so why can’t we dramatically reduce federal land ownership in the western states as well?
Of course the federal government will always need a very small amount of land for certain national purposes, and nobody is disputing that. According to the Heritage Foundation (http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#%21/articles/4/essays/126/property-clause), the following are the primary purposes that federal land is being used for…
These holdings include national parks, national forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, vast tracts of range and wasteland managed by the Bureau of Land Management, reservations held in trust for Native American tribes, military bases, and ordinary federal buildings and installations.
We will always need to have some land set aside for those purposes.
But does the Bureau Of Land Management really need more than 247 million acres?
Does the Forest Service really need more than 192 million acres?
Does the Fish and Wildlife Service really need more than 89 million acres?
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-27/federal-government-owns-61-idaho-64-utah-and-84-nevada
Time to sell it off and pay down the debt.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/06/22/20170627_states_0.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/06/22/20170627_states.jpg)
Today, the feds control approximately 640 million acres of land, and after decades of very poor management, many are calling on the states to take a larger role. This is particularly true in the 11 western states where the federal government collectively owns 47 percent (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government-owns-so-much-land-in-the-west.html) of all land. East of the Mississippi River, the feds only own 4 percent (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government-owns-so-much-land-in-the-west.html) of all land, and there is no reason for such a disparity to exist. In Connecticut and Iowa, the federal government only owns 0.3 percent of all land. Such an arrangement seems to work very well for those states, and so why can’t we dramatically reduce federal land ownership in the western states as well?
Of course the federal government will always need a very small amount of land for certain national purposes, and nobody is disputing that. According to the Heritage Foundation (http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#%21/articles/4/essays/126/property-clause), the following are the primary purposes that federal land is being used for…
These holdings include national parks, national forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, vast tracts of range and wasteland managed by the Bureau of Land Management, reservations held in trust for Native American tribes, military bases, and ordinary federal buildings and installations.
We will always need to have some land set aside for those purposes.
But does the Bureau Of Land Management really need more than 247 million acres?
Does the Forest Service really need more than 192 million acres?
Does the Fish and Wildlife Service really need more than 89 million acres?
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-27/federal-government-owns-61-idaho-64-utah-and-84-nevada
Time to sell it off and pay down the debt.