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Even they aren't dumb enough

Ramona — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:20:32 +0000

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Even they aren't dumb enough to try to sell off the Grand Canyon or any other tourist site. They want the raw land so the can exploit it by cutting and drilling and laying pipe lines. They see nothing but huge profits from all that wasted property. But what happens when it's sold and the money is spent? What comes next? The Great Lakes? If they could get away with selling the air above us, they would do it before midnight.

Perhaps if the Mayflower

MrSmith1 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:56:04 +0000

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Perhaps if the Mayflower landed in San Diego and Manifest Destiny was pushing East instead of West, we might have had a reversal of those numbers.

But all kidding aside, how much of the 48.1% of the land owned by the Federal government in Arizona is the Grand Canyon? How much should we sell to private developers? 50%? It's a ludicrous idea, pushed by men with tiny minds.

I did a NYTimes search and

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:16:28 +0000

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I did a NYTimes search and found this map & chart from a March 23, 2012 article on Utah's governor trying to get some of it returned to state control. The map shows a striking difference, that the Fed government really does own an extreme amount of the land in the 13 furthest west states and comparatively very little percentage in other states. On the map the difference appears like night & day.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/23/us/western-land-owned-by-t...

Here's the data from the chart, the percent of each state owned by the Fed:

Nevada 84.5%

Alaska 69.1%

Utah 57.5%

Oregon 53.1%

Idaho 50.2%

Arizona 48.1%

California 45.3%

Wyoming 42.3%

New Mexico 41.8%

Colorado 36.6%

Washington 30.3%

Montana 29.9%

Hawaii 19.4%

Ha! You really know how to

MrSmith1 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:10:27 +0000

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Ha! You really know how to make a Conservative's head explode, don't you?

Cheney was attempting to

Richard Day — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:19:14 +0000

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Cheney was attempting to advocate this 'sale' during w's Administration.

But, of course, Dicky would sell the land to the capitalistic pigs for ten cents on the dollar!

Cheney was attempting to

Richard Day — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:19:14 +0000

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Cheney was attempting to advocate this 'sale' during w's Administration.

But, of course, Dicky would sell the land to the capitalistic pigs for ten cents on the dollar!

Suggest a federal property

EmmaZahn — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:20:16 +0000

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Suggest a federal property tax to your friend instead.

It would lose the whole

trkingmomoe — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 03:08:06 +0000

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It would lose the whole country of voters to the GOP. The rich is going to just have to resign to the fact that the tax man is coming. The GOP don't weld enough power to do that. Dream on Forbes.