How Oligarchs Steal America’s Public Lands, by Elizabeth Nickson

Are most or all of the U.S.’s public lands going to be privatized? From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnickslon.substack.com:

And how they proceed to destroy it

Trump eliminated the estate tax on farmers this week. This is a huge boost for their survival and the celebration in every township and county will go on for years. Also last week, the EPA eliminated the preposterous endangerment finding on CO2.

In April, Lee Zeldin launched the biggest deregulatory program in history, which means that rural America can now grow again after fifty years of deliberate, Club of Rome, suppression.

Zeldin’s actions will roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden taxes that have caused the cost of cars, homes, fuel and business operations to rise artificially. Much of that regulation was gold-plated fantasy, that financially benefited the regulators and ruined everyone else.

Further, given these regulatory reforms, starting businesses and manufacturing in local communities will be much much easier. This is huge. When I drove through rural America ten years ago, the men and women who made those counties run, lived in a kind of permanent despair. They were convinced they, their culture, traditions, history and towns were going to die within their lifetimes and not only that, be maligned, buried and forgotten.

That is no longer true.

But, and of course, there is a but:

Buried in Trump’s Genius Act, lies yet another fascist incursion on America’s lands.

You have to be rich to care about land, otherwise your life is too fraught with getting by to even think about it. But property is everything, and Canada and the US have billions of acres from which to make bank by and for the conscienceless rich.

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One response to “How Oligarchs Steal America’s Public Lands, by Elizabeth Nickson”

  1. fourth world turd's avatar fourth world turd

    Watching that Mercola/Archuleta video of rural America going broke.

    You’ll own nothing and love it in the 15m concentration camp.

    Saw a tweet about crackdown on home yard gardens in a CPUSA (D) stronghold.

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