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Federal Lands: How much could they be sold for -- and would it pay the national debt?
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Posted on 04/16/2014 6:40:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin

If the budget would be balanced by selling off the huge swaths of Federal land -- why not do it?


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1 posted on 04/16/2014 6:40:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Because the already have???

Yeah... they have.


2 posted on 04/16/2014 6:41:28 PM PDT by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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Question: How much are these huge swaths land worth (that haven’t been sold yet)

I/m asking because I don’t know.


3 posted on 04/16/2014 6:43:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t do it because they’d just run it back up again.


4 posted on 04/16/2014 6:45:56 PM PDT by Tao Yin
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To: BenLurkin

Well Ben. Because it aint theirs to sell.

Give it back to the rightful owners. The states or the local counties.


5 posted on 04/16/2014 6:47:01 PM PDT by crz
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To: BenLurkin

But if you insist. Average the price per acre and times it by the amount of federal land.

But, if it were given back to the local counties, the control and taxes would go directly into the local county coffers.


6 posted on 04/16/2014 6:49:07 PM PDT by crz
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To: crz

There you go.


7 posted on 04/16/2014 6:50:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Tao Yin
"Don’t do it because they’d just run it back up again."

BINGO! ('cept they should sell off at least a half of what they hoard in Nevada.)

8 posted on 04/16/2014 6:51:54 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

The feds didn’t pay the states for it to begin with. The feds shouldd pay back rent to the states and give it back


9 posted on 04/16/2014 6:52:43 PM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.)
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To: BenLurkin

Camp Pendleton alone might pay off the national debt. Just imagine 200 square miles with 17 miles of pristine Pacific beachfront in crowded Southern California. That is some valuable real estate!


10 posted on 04/16/2014 6:53:48 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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Here, if you want to know how well a county can manage its assets. BTW, there is a story behind all of this.

http://www.marinettecounty.com/departments/?department=bcda1ec1f9dd&subdepartment=b5134f1ee8b7


11 posted on 04/16/2014 6:56:04 PM PDT by crz
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To: Always A Marine

Camp Pendleton is a military base. At least the last time I knew.


12 posted on 04/16/2014 6:57:27 PM PDT by crz
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To: crz

The price per acre is going to vary enormously depending on where the land is and what it can be used for.

As for it belonging to the each state, that may very too depending on if the land was acquired before the state became a state. Obviously, land which was Federalized while the locale was still a territory, isn’t going to be sovereign land of the state.


13 posted on 04/16/2014 6:58:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nope, when the territory became a state, the land goes to them.

You do know that all each state has to do, is claim these lands do you not?

Nevada for instance would become very rich, very fast. That is, if they would play their cards right.


14 posted on 04/16/2014 7:01:06 PM PDT by crz
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To: BenLurkin

A lot of that land is rich in minerals and oil.


15 posted on 04/16/2014 7:01:21 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: BenLurkin

Barry would sell them to Putin and the ChiComs.


16 posted on 04/16/2014 7:01:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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How about a simple amendment to the Constitution, requiring that the percentage of land owned by the Federal government in any state falls within 2% of a national average?

FTF.


17 posted on 04/16/2014 7:02:21 PM PDT by dagogo redux
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You do know that all each state has to do, is claim these lands do you not?

I would be interested in seeing more information about that.

18 posted on 04/16/2014 7:04:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Always A Marine

Nice beach there — but watch our for UXE!


19 posted on 04/16/2014 7:05:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And kick big kickbacks under the table.


20 posted on 04/16/2014 7:06:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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