Selling of leases is a traditional way to pad budgets short-term, and then whoever did it retired and it becomes somebody else's problem. If you budget is leaki

Selling of leases is a traditional way to pad budgets short-term, and then whoever did it retired and it becomes somebody else's problem. If you budget is leaking and you urgently need $BIG_BUCKS to plug it, just sell a 75-year lease and move on. Of course, if you eventually run out of leases to sell, it may be a bit of a problem, but it will be then, and now is now.