“The federal government owns a little more than one-fourth of the total land area of the United States. The time is long overdue to consider whether that is the best economic arrangement.” Those are the words of the great Thomas Sowell. How to argue with Sowell? Think of the freedom and economic progress that would emerge from the federal government owning quite a bit less of the U.S.’s total land area. The difficulty has to do with how Sowell proceeds.
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