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DeezerShoove » 26 Nov 2022, 6:24 pm » wrote: ↑

26 Nov 2022, 6:24 pm

"With LVT any site with no registered owner would be sold by auction for the benefit of the Government."

This list is British. They have 7% the the land mass of just the lower 48 states. 
So, we must have a lot of land to sell to somebody...  48 states is 2.8 million sq miles more than GB.
I wonder how much is untitled and up for grabs in this fair, equitable, honest auction.  

Just throw Alaska in that mix as well and it gets scarier.

Whoever buys it owes taxes on it - so I doubt the mojave would sell. Ditto the Badlands, ditto the rocky mountain wild life areas. The truth is, there'd be a massive reshuffling of the deck on land ownership, with the large estates broken up and divided into smaller holdings. Ted Turner and Bill Gates and the chi-coms would no more be able to hold farmland out of production. Whoever owns it, farms it - or abandons it; after which, whoever owns it, farms it. 

It's unlikely any currently held government lands would sell - and depending on precisely how LVT was implemented, it might not be incumbent on government to put every plot of land on the market. I think the pentagon, for example, would remain in government hands. Likely your town's police department would never be found on the auction block. Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Teton would likely remain federal or state property, as well.