The Federal Govt. owns a lot of assets it should probably dispose of—and it could start with land.
In some western states, the Federal govt owns enormous amounts of land; over 80% of the land in Nevada; over 40% of California, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico; over 50% of Oregon; & the list goes on.
I don’t think the founding fathers ever envisioned that much of any state’s land being in the hands of the federal government (or the state government for that matter).
I would be concerned that the powers that be today would sell USA land to any nation in order to distribute our wealth. Think China, Brazil and even Kenya.
Outstanding idea. We need to sell off those assets and it would make a great contrast to see the Left go nuts. Sell the acreage in open public auctions online.
We could also sell the rights to build nuclear power plants on military bases. Wouldn’t that skip a whole lot of rigamarole, etc.? Then just sell the “excess” energy back to the grid.
The ideas are endless. Do we really need Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, etc.? I’m not being facetious at all. What’s it cost to keep those places?
Better a default than to sell the coal to the Chinese.
Perhaps we could undo the Louisiana purchase?
Who would like to buy Louisiana?!? Anybody?
“I don’t think the founding fathers ever envisioned that much of any state’s land being in the hands of the federal government (or the state government for that matter).”
True - but worse yet, to whom would you suggest all this land be sold? China? Some Saudi princes? Foreigners already own WAY too much of our country, including chunks of New York City.
How about just putting that land back into the hands of the states from which it was confiscated and finding ANOTHER way of raising money, hmmm?
Since we’re the “Saudi Arabia” of natural gas, maybe we should be allowed to bring a whole lot more of that to market!