Subject:  Cato/Bush wants Total Land Privatization !!! (Reuss)..
Date:     Wed, 15 Dec 1999 161813 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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........This ought to be enough to put an end to the Bush candidacy.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:06:58 +0100
From: Christoph Reuss 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Fwd: Cato/Bush wants Total Land Privatization !!!

-------- Original Message --------
From: Interhemispheric Resource Center 
Subject: [EcoTalk] How and Why to Privatize Federal Lands
Resent-From: ecotalk@earthsystems.org
To: envlawprofs@lists.uoregon.edu

This is rather frightening.
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>Below is the Executive Summary of a new report from the Cato Institute
>titled: "How and Why to Privatize Federal Lands."  This report recommends
>the complete privatization of ALL public lands in America. ALL lands, means
>all National Forests, all National Parks, all Military lands, all
>Wilderness, all everything !!!!
>
>One could dismiss this report as a fantasy of the reactionary right-wing,
>except for one important point. Its principle author, Terry L. Anderson, has
>been hired by Presidential candidate George W. Bush to serve as his public
>lands policy advisor.
>
>If Bush is elected President, this privatization scheme will be more than
>just a bad dream. It will become a very real nightmare.
>
>Scott
>
>PS.... Terry Anderson's Political Economy Research Center recently published
>a second report --- that one titled: "Paying to Play: The Fee Demonstration
>Program."
>
>Needless to say, that report touts recreation user fees as an important
>component of the privatization agenda. (see http://www.perc.org/ps17pr.htm )
>
>
>----------quoted from Cato Institute ----
>
>http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-363es.html
>
>Cato Policy Analysis No. 363  December 9, 1999
>
>How and Why to Privatize Federal Lands
>by Terry L. Anderson, Vernon L. Smith, and Emily Simmons
>
>Executive Summary
>
>Fully a third of the land area of the United States is owned by
>the federal government. Although many Americans support the
>preservation of those lands, analysts on the left and the right
>agree that the federal government has done an exceedingly poor
>job of stewarding those resources. Indeed, the failure of
>socialism is as evident in the realm of resource economics as it
>is in other areas of the economy.
>
>Four criteria should guide reform efforts: land should be
>allocated to the highest-valued use; transaction costs should be
>kept to a minimum; there must be broad participation in the
>divestiture process; and "squatters' rights" should be protected.
>Unfortunately, the land reform proposals on the table today fail
>to meet some or all of those criteria.
>
>Accordingly, we offer a blueprint for auctioning off all public
>lands over 20 to 40 years. Both environmental quality and
>economic efficiency would be enhanced by private rather than
>public ownership. Land would be auctioned not for dollars but for
>public land share certificates (analogous to no par value stock
>certificates) distributed equally to all Americans. Those
>certificates could be freely transferred at any time during the
>divestiture period and would not expire until after the final
>auction. Land would be partitioned into tracts or primary units,
>and corresponding to each tract would be a set of distinct,
>separable, elemental deed rights. Any individual with a
>documented claim to rights defined by those deeds, however, would
>be assigned the appropriate deed or deeds. Once divested, tract
>deed rights would be freely transferable.
>
>
>Full Text of Policy Analysis No. 363 (PDF, 25 pgs, 160 Kb)
>http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa363.pdf
>
>© 1999 The Cato Institute
>
>
>


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