This guy is all about the Federal government making everything great. If you want more Federal control, vote for Trump.
“I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do,”
Yeah, you can’t trust the little people to be stewards of the land as they have been for thousands of years. Need a bunch of bureaucrats managing things for the rubes and hicks.
The mask really begins to slip with a response like this.
If the states owned the land, it might be harder to turn this country into the United Casinos & Shopping Malls of America. (Developed and run by Donald J. Trump, of course)
The headline is somewhat different that what the article says Trump said:
Allowing states to take control of federal lands is different than giving federal land to the states. The latter relinquishes ownership to the states.
Most so-called ‘Federal land’ should be in the hands of the respective stae, imo.
Didn’t I just read that he promised to give the states their land back?
True conservative Orange Gumby strikes again
This is a nuanced issue. Some lands should be federal. Should we give Mount Rushmore National Park over to South Dakota? When South Dakota goes broke, is everyone going to be happy when Starbucks pays to carve their logo on it?
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution gives the fedgov the right to own land.
I do think that 33% of the country is excessive, which is what they currently own, so I disagree with Trump’s blanket statement here.
Then again, if I never voted for someone I didn’t agree with on 100% of everything, I’d never vote.
Bottom line is, you can disagree with how much land the government owns, but them owning land isn’t some kind of egregious violation of the Constitution, it’s in there in black and white.
The Heritage Foundation has a mixed view of the Property Clause as well. I guess they’re paid liberal plants, too. :/
Emil Faber could not have said it any better.
When you think about it, there is really nothing to backup the value of the US currency except whatever property the federal government holds. It seems to me that they should be drilling and mining that land and use those commodities to backup the dollar. I know it’s a drop in the bucket, but still. Some day the currency hoax bubble is gonna burst.
“...you don’t know what the state is going to do”.
Uh, no, Donald. You don’t. But you also don’t know what the Feds via the EPA are going to do to totally screw up the state’s and the citizens that live in that state’s land (See: EPA pollutes Animas River in Colorado in the biggest environmental disaster in decades).
Offhand, I’ll take what the states ‘might do’ over what the incompetent Fed always does any damned day. But thanks for showing us (again and still) just who and what you really are, Donald. Just another pro-big government leftie.
But, I am sure that a proper partition by individuals or for proper State projects would be considered by the Trump Presidency. Trump realizes that as America expands so does the need for land expansion. As a businessman it is part of his world.
This is about #93 on the list of most critical issues facing the country right now. The usual band of posters crying that Trump is a liberal or he lost my vote over something that’s not going to change for awhile if ever. Get the rest of the house in order and then have a discussion about turning the land back to the states.
I disagree with him.
Of course this is one more issue that ranks down in the 70s range, on my list of must haves.
Think about it. This issue will not change. It can be addressed later.
It’s not like he’s confiscating new land.
One more nothing burger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner day...
Ive at least noticed Turnip supporters aren’t even pretending he is remotely conservative so this doesn’t matter.
Once again Trump speaking on a subject he knows nothing about.
He doesn’t live in the western states, where the Feds have over half of the ground and are fencing it off from human presence or activity.
If the feds ran the land properly and fairly, would it be a problem?
I recall back when Romney became MA governor, he wanted to let contractors build a condo development on the state's highest peak! Thank God MA residents to some degree respect the environment.
I’m really sick of the word “great”.
B-b-b-but he really is Conservative! I promise!! /sarc