Billy Golightly
02-22-2009, 06:47 PM
I just had this idea on the way home this afternoon in the truck, I think its absolutely ingenious. The only problem is, the greenies would probably never let it happen.
Does anyone know which entity, owns the most land, in this country? Any guesses?
Its the Feds, good ole Uncle Same himself! No one really knows for sure how much land the Feds own in national parks, preserves and other such nonsense, but the estimates are at least 670 MILLION ACRES that has practically NOTHING done with it!
Lets say that each one of these acres holds a value of $1,000.
That is approximately 6.7 TRILLION DOLLARS in assets.
We've got about $10 trillion in national debt at the moment.
If Uncle Sam put a forsale sign on HALF the acreage it owns right now today, there would be a very plausible and feasible chance to generate $3 TRILLION+ with no additional bureaucracy, no loans from foreigners, no hyper-inflation from printing money, no ridiculous taxes, NOTHING. Hell, if you want to REALLY get into seeing some benefits, let the Feds OWNER FINANCE THIS LAND! We're already financing to the banks and trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro, hell lets owner finance some fed property to people they can maybe do something with. Interest generation from something of this scale would be absolutely massive. Another several billion atleast would be my guess. It'd also cut down on another MASSIVE expense, and that's the oversight/upkeep of these properties with park rangers and the like...
Is this is a completely asinine idea, or is there a little bit of genius behind it?
Does anyone know which entity, owns the most land, in this country? Any guesses?
Its the Feds, good ole Uncle Same himself! No one really knows for sure how much land the Feds own in national parks, preserves and other such nonsense, but the estimates are at least 670 MILLION ACRES that has practically NOTHING done with it!
Lets say that each one of these acres holds a value of $1,000.
That is approximately 6.7 TRILLION DOLLARS in assets.
We've got about $10 trillion in national debt at the moment.
If Uncle Sam put a forsale sign on HALF the acreage it owns right now today, there would be a very plausible and feasible chance to generate $3 TRILLION+ with no additional bureaucracy, no loans from foreigners, no hyper-inflation from printing money, no ridiculous taxes, NOTHING. Hell, if you want to REALLY get into seeing some benefits, let the Feds OWNER FINANCE THIS LAND! We're already financing to the banks and trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro, hell lets owner finance some fed property to people they can maybe do something with. Interest generation from something of this scale would be absolutely massive. Another several billion atleast would be my guess. It'd also cut down on another MASSIVE expense, and that's the oversight/upkeep of these properties with park rangers and the like...
Is this is a completely asinine idea, or is there a little bit of genius behind it?