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Utah plans to take US land through eminent domain
Business Week ^ | March 10, 2010 | BROCK VERGAKIS

Posted on 03/10/2010 11:52:14 AM PST by Willie Green

Utah lawmakers angry over federal ownership of land in the state approved the use of eminent domain Tuesday to take some of the most valuable parcels.

The goal is to spark a U.S. Supreme Court battle that legislators' own attorneys acknowledge has little chance of success.

But Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and other Republicans say the case is still worth fighting because if the state wins it could reap millions of dollars for state schools each year.

More than 60 percent of Utah is owned by the U.S. government, and policy makers here have long complained that federal ownership hinders their ability to generate tax revenue and adequately fund public schools.

Utah spends less per student than any other state and has the nation's largest class sizes.

"Access to these lands will unlock billions of dollars for our kids," said Sen. Dan Liljenquist, R-Bountiful. "This is our own land that we can't get access to because of an unreasonable federal government."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; coal; donttreadonme; eminentdomain; lping; oil; statesrights
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1 posted on 03/10/2010 11:52:14 AM PST by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green

Good news, glad to see someone standing up to them. Can’t wait to see the FedGov’s reaction.


2 posted on 03/10/2010 11:55:08 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: Willie Green
I seem to remember that, years ago, someone stood up to the Fed Gov owning and controlling public land. It seems like it was Idaho.

They asked for the Feds to provide documentation showing where they got the authority. ...and they couldn't do it, IIRC.

Anyone have more info on that, or am I imagining things?

3 posted on 03/10/2010 11:57:13 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Willie Green

Good it stand up to the Feds. Bad to push more “underfunded public schools” propaganda. Utah school districts spend more on administrative staff than teachers.


4 posted on 03/10/2010 11:58:34 AM PST by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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To: Willie Green

OVERDUE!

Once we get state legislators that have a pair, we can then work on the fed to abolish the EPA and Dept of the Interior.

Enough! of federal dithering in the states.


5 posted on 03/10/2010 11:58:44 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Willie Green
States taking Federal land doesn't usually end well. A dispute over the ownership of Fort Sumter comes to mind. Remember the stats seceded and everyone was still trying to negotiate. It was when they grabbed the federal land in those states that the shooting started. The people in Utah better be ready for the hornets nest they are about to kick over with this.
6 posted on 03/10/2010 11:59:54 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: 13Sisters76
Once we get state legislators that have a pair, we can then work on the fed to abolish the EPA and Dept of the Interior.

Then work on the entirety of the IRS and the DEA.

7 posted on 03/10/2010 12:01:04 PM PST by wastedyears (The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.)
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To: Willie Green

Those who wrote our Constitution never envisioned that the federal government they created would actually steal from the states like this is.

The states have the sovereign rights, not the feds.


8 posted on 03/10/2010 12:02:40 PM PST by bestintxas
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To: ravingnutter

Article 1, section 8 next to the last paragraph lays out the feds authority vis a vis land grabbing. They have, as always, badly overstepped their authority.


9 posted on 03/10/2010 12:05:21 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

Ironically, the Kelo decision may be the precedent.


10 posted on 03/10/2010 12:07:45 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Ping


11 posted on 03/10/2010 12:08:48 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Willie Green

Great move for Utah and damn glad to read you’re posts back on FR.


12 posted on 03/10/2010 12:09:14 PM PST by Eagles2003
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To: Eagles2003

Thank-you!


13 posted on 03/10/2010 12:10:31 PM PST by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green

Are these the lands that the b*****d Clinton took by executive order as he was leaving office? His last fU to conservatives?


14 posted on 03/10/2010 12:12:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
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To: Willie Green

HUMMMM, like the sound of this one.


15 posted on 03/10/2010 12:14:30 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Chickensoup

The national monument with the sulfur free coal is, yes. That was tied to the Riady case, with an Indonesian business man funnelling money to Clinton’s campaign - and while the federal government mandates sulfur free coal use, locks up the largest undeveloped deposit in the United States in a no-mining national “monument”.


16 posted on 03/10/2010 12:14:34 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: wastedyears

And while you are at it the BATF.....Declare sovereignty and keep all your money at home. Just think what the states could be if they cut the tax rates and kept all the money in the states...............


17 posted on 03/10/2010 12:18:09 PM PST by Concho
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To: Willie Green; Congressman Billybob

Utah should win.

I would hope.


18 posted on 03/10/2010 12:20:36 PM PST by GeronL (I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
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To: Willie Green

And WTF does the fed gubmint do with their trillions of acres of land? Anything? Does it just sit there and is it unpopulated or not farmed or used for grazing, or anything? We know for sure that pantywaist liberals who have never been outside their cities or condos or mansions, have never even stepped foot in any natural wild setting.


19 posted on 03/10/2010 12:26:33 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: Willie Green

Whoohoo Utah!


20 posted on 03/10/2010 12:27:35 PM PST by Falcon28 (Allen West - 2012)
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