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What's your Ammon Bundy takeaway? That federal lands should be a free-for-all? I don't know about cost-effectiveness, or what that even means. In the case of
by specialist 5y ago
What's your Ammon Bundy takeaway? That federal lands should be a free-for-all?
I don't know about cost-effectiveness, or what that even means.
In the case of BLM, they're just expediting the plunder of our natural resources for the benefit of a select few. (To say nothing of betraying their charter.)
I don't expect BLM to be revenue positive. But I do expect them to charge fair prices in the open market.
Because fair is fair.
- bpodgursky 5y agoMy take-away is that the BLM should charge a nominal fee and prevent overgrazing. > To say nothing of betraying their charter Their charter is absolutely to enable the extraction of resources from federal lands. It's a wild reinterpretation of history to claim otherwise. > But I do expect them to charge fair prices in the open market There is no "open market" for land; the BLM owns, for example 65% of Nevada, and huge amounts of Utah, Montana etc. If the US government was a telecom company, everyone here would be up in arms about monopoly price gouging if they tried to charge "market" rates, because consumers have no alternative!