The Cowboy State Daily, a Wyoming alternative media outlet that produces much of its own content, reports an effort by Wyoming officials to support a Utah lawsuit that could result in 200 million acres of FedGov land in the West being turned over to the States in which they are found.
Lovers of liberty question whether there should be any governmental ownership of any land (or the subsurface or aerial rights): anarchists argue that land should be owned by people – perhaps not even corporations. Minarchists might argue that some land (needed for courthouses and military use, and perhaps jails and prisons and roads) could be government-owned. But the truth is, in every State the FedGov owns all kinds of land. State and local and tribal governments also own a lot.
Utah is pushing back after nearly a hundred and thirty years of tolerating this situation. They are among other things arguing that the State of Utah is not truly the equal of States that have to put up with only 1-2 percent Federal land ownership. And the State is taking a little-used Constitutional method of going straight to the Supreme Court. They understand it is very much an uphill effort.
This effort is, frankly, freaking out a lot of people, including both Democrats and Republicans. The effort includes both the State’s governor and only US Representatives, and 26 members (and probably a majority) of the Legislature. All GOP types for now – in part because only 7 of 93 legislators in Wyoming are Democrats.
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Looking to Tuesday 5 NOV 2024
A quick few ideas and reminders:
If only we could just walk away!
Oh for “NONE OF THE ABOVE!”
To say nothing of the talkng heads, editorials, letters to the editor, and the protesters!
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. Mark Twain (Apocyrphal)
Mark Twain also wrote: If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.
Not ALL celebrities spout nonsense.