“The government owns it all. We are just paying rent called property taxes.”
Different... Local spent locally. The Feds are only “Stewards” of federal public lands. They do not own them, we do.
stew·ard:
1: one employed in a large household or estate to manage domestic concerns (such as the supervision of servants, collection of rents, and keeping of accounts)
2: shop steward
3: a fiscal agent
4 a: an employee on a ship, airplane, bus, or train who manages the provisioning of food and attends passengers
b: one appointed to supervise the provision and distribution of food and drink in an institution
5: one who actively directs affairs : manager
Hence BLM... Bureau of Land Management.
They DO NOT OWN IT, they are only employed to manage it for us the people who actually own it...
State government is still the government. Tax money is fumigable. It can be shifted between uses and levels of government.
If, after the last three years, you think government is managing the country for us, I don’t know what to say to convince you otherwise.