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I'm not sure why that's wanted? If the goal is to equalize the amount of land owned by the federal government in each state, why not do the opposite and have t

• driverdan 6y ago
  Who said that was the goal? That doesn't make any sense. It would cost billions to buy up land on the east coast and only inflate the value of the remaining land. Outside of monuments and parks most of the land the gov owns in western states is undesirable. You can already buy very cheap land in the middle of nowhere UT, NM, NV, and AZ. The market for off grid desert land with no water is small.
  • Miner49er 6y ago
    Then what is the goal? That's my question.
  • barney54 6y ago
    And this is exactly why the federal government still owns so much land. Through laws like the Taylor Grazing Act they sold almost all lands which had water in the west.
• jeffbee 6y ago
  Pretty hard. The feds can’t just gain property. They have it in the west by having reserved it in the first place. That is, federal land in the west never belonged to the state. Now what we should have done over the last twenty years is just buy Canada. It works have only cost a few trillion dollars (non-urban areas only) and would have radically expanded federal holdings.