“Why should we buy our own land? Our taxes already go to pay for the BLM and their activities. It’s like paying a fee to get your own money out of the bank.”
I agree it is, but we are going have a hard time convening greedy eastern to give up their death grip on our lands for free. But we can overtime buy the land just as they did before Washington unilaterally stopped selling it in the 1970’s.
That is the deal we can both live with. Washington Needs the money and we need the land out of their bureaucratic hands.
I bet a lot of states, not just those in the West would like to get these lands under their control. I presume Congress can make this decision. Hopefully, it can be raised as an issue with a bill that could garner support.