The investors, that is, the winning bidders for utilization of the land ... they get to use the land and make a profit at it WITHOUT PAYING TAXES ON THE LAND.
Frankly, Wall Street is thrilled at the prospect.
Investment bankers are thrilled.
They have been searching around for enterprise in which to invest, and they have found, in planning, the land upon which to develop BUT NOT PAY TAXES.
Farmers in South Dakota vote for Tom Daschle. They pay taxes on their land.
He plans to acquire their kindred (other peoples' like) land (because he does not want to lose HIS constituency), unbeknownst to them, and sub-contract the use of the land, to investors.
The environmentalist mindset thinks it has won a victory by turning over the land to THEIR purposes of, for example, restoring the sniper nat to its rightful kingdom, and because of THAT, they are happy enough to not trouble themselves too much with the land which is sub-contracted for development.
But the message here, is that nobody is paying any taxes on that land anymore, because the government / state owns it. Furthermore, the contract winners are NOT paying any taxes on the land, because they do not own it.
Now, they're going to give a percentage of their profits to the gov't / university management in situs, but the investors will be happy --- OR THERE'S NO DEAL.
Well, not a problem for the Democrats, because to their way of thinking, they are getting enough of what they want as well as being further along to recognized collectivization of private property; "fools that the corporate investors are, we'll use them and their greed to help pay and pave the way!"
Astute.
It's working.
The corporate investors are too short-sighted to concern themselves with THEIR SHRINKING INVESTOR POPULATION "facing inevitable death." Nope, for now, "let's just focus upon what money can be made in the short term, not to mention how our syndicalism with the socialists helps induce their serving notice to the unions to 'back off!'"
I left that part out; where the unions' membership who have also marched in lockstep with the Democrat Party, are also getting screwed.
Those constituents of Sen. Tom Daschle?
They still have THEIR land, and they still pay taxes on it, but they pay more and more --- with the help of subsidies from him --- the cash flow permitting their continuance, but their land is really worthless to them other than maintaining, for a Daschle Moment, their livelihood. Yet they must pay taxes ... to make up for the loss of the tax base elsewhere.
For the most part, nobody other than the federal government could afford to purchase the land which is under such a tremendous tax burden; again, IF the farmers would care to notice THAT!
No heirs will inherit the land SUCCESSFULLY except through creative legislation resulting from public sympathy for the farmers. And there will probably always be some of such legislation because it is good for political candidates. Yet we will have token farm families; culturally quaint, kind of like Williamsburg, VA., and they will be closely watched.
Because the liberals are paranoid about the roots of resistance to government control in this country, which roots go way back to individual self-reliance upon one's own land.
The leftists are attacking ALL the foundations of our Liberty, but tragically, the people who really work for a living, are too busy to notice all of these encroachments.