Posted on 01/07/2019 12:14:34 PM PST by Moseley
To build a wall along the United States’ international border with Mexico, President Donald Trump could order the sale of approximately 500,000 to 5 million acres of federal land. The U.S. Government currently claims ownership of about 640 million acres of land — or about 28% of the total land mass of the nation. This could raise the entire $25 billion needed to finance building the wall (not just the next installment we are currently fighting over).
But one must understand that out of 640 million acres there is a vast diversity of terrain. The task is to select only between around 0.08% to 0.78% of that total land. Most federally-owned land is not suitable. But some land would be appropriate for sale to the State government, the County, or the general public. Some Western public land is nothing but empty grassland, just ordinary grazing land. Some public land is indistinguishable from the type of land currently owned and used by private citizens. In some cases, there seems to be no plausible reason for the federal government to be holding the land at all.
Decisions about which public lands within a state to consider as candidates must be nominated by each State government. It cannot be the President deciding, because left-wing interests groups will demagogue the issue. The State must identify which lands are not environmentally sensitive, culturally historic, important for scenic or recreational purposes, or reasonably claimed by Native Americans. Throwing those decisions to the States allows all the stake-holders to debate the choices, minimizing left-wing hysteria.
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Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1713(a), allows a tract of the public lands that is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (except land within the National Wilderness Preservation System, National Wild and Scenic Rivers Systems, and National System of Trails) to be sold by the Secretary of Interior.
n fact, a recent court case just upheld the unrestricted right of the U.S. Government to sell public land. On November 2, 2018, a federal judge in California struck down a California law SB 50. The law was actually quite mild, giving the California State Lands Commission the first shot at buying any land that the U.S. Government wants to sell. This is actually a reasonable position, that perhaps should be built-in as a policy nationwide. Why not let the State or County have a right of first refusal, to make as many people as happy as possible about the sale?
But the Trump Administration filed a lawsuit. Judge William Shubb ruled that the power of the federal government to sell the land it owns to anyone it wants is so clear and powerful, that California cannot restrict who the land can be sold to. In other words, the land can clearly be sold.
Critics will focus, as always, on the wrong examples. This is why each State — not the President — must select and nominate candidate land after debate within each State. Depending on the politics of their leadership, some States will not participate at all. Not a problem. There are plenty of other options. Some States will be eager. Talk to those States, not the trouble-makers. (In fact, that was California’s rationale for its law: They wanted to make sure that sensitive public lands were not being sold to private buyers.)
Camp Pendelton in California is worth BILLIONS and BILLIONS
I hope he sells your blog to the Chinese and they use it to wrap up some roasted dog meat.
The answer is damned simple !
Use all seized drug monies , terrorism and human trafficking monies , which are sitting in U.S. Gov warehouses , on legal appeals and various holds and stays , to FUND THE WALL !
THIS is the way to make Mexico pay for the wall , as promised .
The money is there . More than enough . Annul all appeals and holds and use that money . It’s U.S. cash $$$$
It could be commanded , by Executive Order , TOMORROW .
Just do it .
Sell it all and pay off our national debt.
Yeah, just think of all the awesome housing gavin gruesome could build to house the trespassers.
Someone mentioned a 100% tax on all money wires going into Mexico. That would raise the money in a month.
mainland chinese and indians have the most cash, sell our land to them.
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It can’t be sold. CP is held in trust for the Marines.
There is no doubt about the right of the fed/gov to sell land.
The really important issue is how does the Executive get to decide what the resulting revenues. It doesn’t.
Great idea, private stewardship is better than public and they will empty the trash in parks even if the government is shutdown.
It is managed under a trust. ALL of it. So that trust should be turned over to the local communities.
Simple fact is this. The mines in the state of NV produce some 5 million ounces of gold a year. Safe to say a lot of that comes from Federal land. Simply hire a mining company to go and mine gold/silver for the federal government. Put it into Ft Knox and go back to the gold and silver standard.
could someone post this article, i am having problems
https://spectator.org/the-most-successful-coverup/
Confiscate and sell the land that the CPUSA and the ACLU use.....drain and sell the swamp.
I like this idea, along with using the monies and assets taken from the drug lords.
But I mostly like THIS IDEA because the U.S. Government is not supposed to own this much natural lands within the United States! That is State property, which means it should be state RESIDENTS property, unless the State has a specific need (reservoirs, State parks, State agency offices, etc.)! The fact that the U.S. Government still owns a great portion of the Southwest is simply BOVINE EXCREMENT!!
Camp Pendelton is a constitutional land and can not be sold. Nor can Washington DC.
Anything other is not.
Use all seized drug monies , terrorism and human trafficking monies , which are sitting in U.S. Gov warehouses , on legal appeals and various holds and stays , to FUND THE WALL !
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At last count, there was some $32,000,000,000 available from the confiscated drug monies just sitting somewhere doing nothing.
Just to clarify, each state would write a check the the government to transfer “ownership” of land from fed to state, correct?
What budget account line item does the credit go to at the federal level? Going through the budget process is one step. Appropriations of the spending is another, technically speaking.
That said, the omnibus budget/spending fiasco of the past decade is completely out of line with the way budgeting and spending is supposed to be legislated and managed. So I don’t know if there are any rules anymore. Trump should just commission the program and charge it to a military budget. Have the Corps of Engineers manage it. How could they stop that? Oh, I know, lawsuits!
Libs are currently suing, and have been suing, to stop the fed from enforcing ACTUAL laws. Go figure.
SELL ANWAR
A whole new meaning to Trump Towers.
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