As you may be aware, selling unused federal land comes with red
tape. Here I will give you my readers a brief outline of what must be
done step by step to sell federal land.
The Steps:
1) First, the agency willing to sell the
property must make sure no other federal agency wants the property.
2) If no federal agency wants it, then the
State government and the local governments must say if they want it or not.
3) Next if no government wants it, then
non-profit organizations have the opportunity to say if they want it or not.
4) The final step is to see if the land
can be used as a homeless shelter (note: every building can be used as a
homeless shelter).
With the 77,000 underutilized and 1/3 of
all these properties not in use, it is a wonder why we are not paying even more
taxes for the use and upkeep of these properties.
Conclusion: This red tape in government has
prevented the government from selling the land at premium prices which can be
used to support government spending initiatives, or be used to help pay the
national debt. Legislation is being proposed (though not getting
anywhere) to cut this process down. Personally, if the legislation says that
the federal agency can't simply sell it outright with the money being given to
the treasury afterwards, or having the treasury being able to seize the land to
sell it to the highest bidder without restrictions, then the politicians are
wasting theirs and our time. Sell the land, and sell it now. We are
tired of wasting our money on useless crap.
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