P.S. - the Federal government sells surplus real property every day usually through auction or sealed bid.
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the Federal government sells surplus real property every day usually through auction or sealed bid.
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Yes, but minor tracts such as office buildings that are no longer used. The federal gov't owns approx 30% of the total land area of the US, including > 50% of the land west of the Mississippi and approx 77% of Nevada. It holds a vast amount of land holdings in Alaska.
Selling a surplus parking lot is not in the same class as selling even 10% of the land it holds in Nevada, for example.
Worse, the total land holdings by government only grows, even as it disposes of "surplus" property. The goal here is to cut the amount of property owned by government to the absolute minimum required to carry out its enumerated functions.
The federal gov't has no business in a free country holding so much land, especially when, starting in the last century, the land came not from sovereign acts such as conquest in war or purchase from a foreign power (like Alaska and the Louisiana Purchase), but by eminent domain aggression against its own citizens (funded with their own tax money, or debt borrowed in their name).
We are on the road to surfdom when we allow gov't to tax us so it can force the sale of private property it claims has intangible public use, like it has a good view or it has a cute stream (always "unique" or "threatened" in enviro-speak). The founding fathers would have gone to war to stop this form of tyranny.