Ending Federal Land Scam

There is a strong case to be made to return all federal lands to the States. State GDP drives US GDP. States compete with each other to grow their GDP and many States grow food for US consumption and for export. Those States with excessive federal lands need to be unleashed to develop all of their land. 

Federal spending needs to be reduced and the investment needed to save federal land from forest fires is best done by the States.  States need the ability to sell this land for farming, livestock grazing and tree farming. States should pay their own infrastructure expenses.

The creation of Federal Land after 1865 was unconstitutional.  The US Constitution strictly prohibits the federal government from owning land except for land they buy to use for government offices and military installations. The Congress has no ratified Amendment to allow it to own land.

The Congress continued to establish unconstitutional departments, agencies and programs that were reserved to the States. This includes Education, Healthcare, Energy, Labor, Transportation, Housing, Mortgage Lending and other industries that should be controlled by the Private Sector under State laws.

Ending Federal Lands is a good way to start in ending the lawlessness of the federal government.

The following article outlines federal land data for all 50 states. An overview of federal land policy and how federal land is managed can be accessed here.

The federal government owns around 640 million acres of land (about 28 percent) of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Around 92 percent of federally owned acres are in 12 Western states.

Four federal agencies—the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) within the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture—oversee roughly 95 percent, or 608 to 610 million acres, of federal land.

HIGHLIGHTS

  Alaska had the most federal land (223.8 million acres) while Nevada had the greatest percentage of federal land within a state (84.9 percent).

  Connecticut and Iowa tied for the lowest percentage of federal land at 0.3 percent each.

  The federal government owned around 23.5 million fewer acres in 2013 than in 1990, a 3.8 percent decrease.

https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state

http://constitutionclub.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader