[VetoBill]

Awe Yes the Buffalo Commons plan. These people, if I remember correctly, have been tracking declining population trends in several selected states.

Their belief is once the number gets to what they consider sparse, their little organization will come in and either, by force of government, or by shear power of pocketbook aquire all remaining ground. By doing this they hope to be able to deny any remaining people the ability to make a living, bankrupting the few left if necessary.

Once the agricultural economy is removed, cities that rely upon farm income and property taxes will be in a drastic situation. With the proper incentives, these cities and towns can also be vacated leaving vast connected wildlife areas.

[Free Vulcan]

The problem is, the U.S. economy would collapse into dust long before things reached that point. There would be a fraction of the tax money collected, so none of what they want could be enforced because the U.S. govt wouldn't have the ability to oversee and maintain a rewilding of an area that size.