You mean like when the taxpayers were robbed to buy Louisiana?
Hate to fill you in, but Jefferson had no authority to do that either.
On top of that he then spent more tax dollars to send guys out there to explore it! Then military to protect it so that freeloading businesses could exploit the territory too!
You are right. We ought to give that back and keep on our side of the Mississippi.
Tell me what raw material is worth $4,500,000 in current dollars per ounce, and then I 'll admit that you may have a case.