Originally Posted by SBTCO
The big fear of the feds transferring land to the states is the states will then sell the land to private interests or resource extraction/developers etc. forever destroying public use of those lands.

If anything it would be easier from the fed perspective, especially considering our debts owed to so many around the world.

So the $64,000 question is, what stops the feds from doing the same thing?


Well, if you're looking for precedent, the Feds did sell a bit off over the years. 270 million acres as part of the Homestead acts alone. In fact, they gave most of that away for free shocked