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Originally Posted by MidyMat
@SteelHut - Why should I be limited to owning under 20 acres?
Also, What is a homeless person going to do with 1 acre of land in the Nevada desert?
In the economics thread I have been exploring land issues for the last 2 years. The greatest economist to ever walk the earth was Henry George. However, his book gave a false solution. If you look at the wealth gap in the United States, what you are really looking at is rent seekers. Land rent seekers. Most collectivists make the mistake and look at money. Money is not the problem why should anyone care how many bars of aluminum or gold someone owns. If you carefully look at Warren Buffet, he is not some great entrepreneur like Gates or Jobs, all he does is buy more real companies on land.
Henry George showed that once a person reaches critical mass, all they do is just accumulate more and more productive land (oil, solar, water, acreage). Land accumulates into fewer and fewer hands as time goes on. Not by sinister means, but by math. Henry George clearly showed what happened to the common lands of England. He showed the cause of the Irish famine. All his predictions came true in the United States.
Why should you be limited to 20 acres?
Because that is about the amount of maximum land the original settlers owned when they came to the United States. Now you have settler A and settler B, now one settler supports having large families and immigration, the question to ask is why should settler be hurt by the actions of the other settler? If farmers need more land, they can rent land from other people. Since the population of the United States could support 500 million people, land limits might be lowered to 5, 2, or 1 acre. Land near ports and productive land might have lower limits.
What is a homeless person going to do with 1 acre of land in the Nevada desert?
The same thing Romney or McCain have with houses spread across the country. Having one acre is an asset and might put a smile on their face. If some capitalist puts a Walmart within walking distance and high speed internet why would not a bum move to Nevada in the desert. You say what is a bum going to do for work? I say they have the same hands and eyes as you do and there is only a small difference between a bum and Warren Buffett. In fact Jobs was once a bum, as he said he use to go to the Hari Krishna temple to get a free dinner.
I don't believe the BLM lands should be given away just some of the land around this Bundy's ranch.