Exactly my point in my post to you. - We all 'own it'..
The truth is, the government owns the property you speak of, not "the people".
'We' own the government.. Read the Preamble.
BTW - What's with the nitpicking?
That leaves the question to be how much property is the proper amount for them to own.
Indeed it does. 'They' violate eminent domain every day in every way at all levels of government.
Time to change things, -- radically, -- imo.
I disagree. And I don't concider it to be nit picking. As far as I'm concerned the words we use to describe things are important.
When taxes become "contributions" and government spending becomes "investment" we are losing the battle. The minds of the young are the battle ground. They become used to hearing these things and it changes their perspective.
So no, I don't agree that we own these things or that we own the government. We don't. We elect some from among our number to represent us. We don't own them or what they do, or what they aquire with the money they take from us.
One of the ways you can tell if you really own something is if you are able to dispose of it at your will. Since I can't sell my part of the bridge, it isn't mine. It's not nitpicking, it's an attempt to prevent the further slide of the people into believing what isn't.
Walter E Williams explains this very well to his students, and we can all learn from it.