We hear about the ailing economy and the housing bubble’s burst. Give to the citizenry large amounts of highly valued assets - land!
The federal government currently owns about 30% of the United States’ land mass (staying away from the ‘eminent domain’ question) . I haven’t looked at the total State, County and City holdings, but I’m sure they’re obscenely high as well.
No bidding it out. Just take maybe 1/3 of the current government-owned land, parcel it out according to market value e.g., $20,000 parcels (possibly have a max/min acreage) and…Voila!
We need ideas to counter this tax-based approach, this ‘meth-ing’ approach, i.e., stimulus, and we need to look at intrinsic, market-based values. Everyone thinks no valuables exist unless it comes from Washington.
Isn’t it time to take a little something from Wasington instead of Washington taking a big something from us?