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To: JimRed
Your reasoning is incredibly shaky.

That land is valuable.

The federal government has the full authority to extract value from that land for the benefit of the public treasury.

Charging grazing fees has a long and established legal history.

Why should one citizen get to benefit from the land without paying? If Cliven Bundy has some mythical "right" to profitably use federal land, why can't any individual citizen just move there, build a house or a factory or an amusement park on it?

It's federal land, and the federal government has authority to determine its use.

38 posted on 04/15/2014 8:54:29 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

... why can’t any individual citizen just move there, build a house ...

http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/content/wo/en/res/Education_in_BLM/homestead_act.html


84 posted on 04/15/2014 2:32:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wideawake
It's federal land, and the federal government has authority to determine its use.

It's American citizens land, and American citizens have authority to elect representative's to determine its use.

88 posted on 04/15/2014 2:33:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wideawake

No, it’s public land. Anyone can use it according to cultural norms, with fees only to maintain and facilitate such land and use. It’s not there for profit, unless content is seriously removed or damaged (mining, drilling; in which case profit is a matter of compensation).


101 posted on 04/15/2014 3:29:46 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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