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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

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1. Economic sanctions...

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Sat Apr 26, 2014, 02:19 PM

Apr 2014

Cut his water, electricity, etc... until he pays his bills. No confrontation.

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Cliven Bundy showed it's time to look at how little we get from business use of public land [View all] yurbud Apr 2014 OP

Economic sanctions... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2014 #1

I don't really give a shit about that Bundy guy apart from the issue he highlighted yurbud Apr 2014 #15

No we are not. It's something I've been Cleita Apr 2014 #2

I've had this argument with conservatives for years. Whenever they drag out their old canard. . . Journeyman Apr 2014 #6

My big gripes are the lumber industry and extraction industries. Cleita Apr 2014 #11

I'd love to have this discussion. truebluegreen Apr 2014 #3

IIRC, most of the lands use rights fees... Wounded Bear Apr 2014 #4

as we have seen with outsourcing though, if a business figures out how to lower costs, they don't yurbud Apr 2014 #12

Often wondered why no one ask's Wellstone ruled Apr 2014 #5

remember the fiasco with the oil regulators a while back? yurbud Apr 2014 #13

I live out west, and I think of it as cilla4progress Apr 2014 #7

Grazing fees need to be kept fairly low Warpy Apr 2014 #8

Except that they are FAR lower than private landowners would charge. alarimer Apr 2014 #10

I don't care as much about grazing fees as other uses of public land. yurbud Apr 2014 #18

Grass? Warpy Apr 2014 #21

All of that is done for less than fair market value. alarimer Apr 2014 #9

"don't do it all" is too close to what we are already doing. yurbud Apr 2014 #14

How would conservatives argue against this since they don't even believe in public property? yurbud Apr 2014 #16

Teddy Roosevelt taught us we need to conserve these public lands over 100 years ago. TeamPooka Apr 2014 #17

I would not advocate increasing the taking from these lands--just getting a fair price for what's yurbud Apr 2014 #19

I just realized this problem is worse than leasing use of public land--privatization sells it too yurbud Apr 2014 #20

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