Category Archives: Land Rights Issues

Most often a policy or actionable item has a basis for its existence.

Quite often that basis is applicable in more instances than was initially intended.

Sometimes that basis has a general use across a broad spectrum of areas.

            However,

The broad use of the US EPA Wetlands Rule is not effective in Alaska.

Alaska is wetlands.

• If the intent of the Rule is to destroy property rights, then it is being used as intended.

• If the intent of the Rule was to prevent development in Alaska, then it is being used as intended.

• If the intent of the Rule was a transfer of wealth from producers to consumers, then the rule is being used as intended.

• If the intent of the Rule was to ensure that Alaskans remain wards of the state and serfs to the environmental movement, then the rule is being used as intended.
  

Alaska is not a United States park.

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Alaska in the Balance, another look at “30-40-30”

 Whether by design or a lack of vision, Alaska was destined from the beginning to be dependent on government for its economic survival. At statehood we placed 99.75% of our land in the pockets of either the federal government or the state government.  Later, as a result of ANILCA, another approximately 44 million acres was transferred to the native corporations.  To date, neither the federal government, the state government, nor the native corporations have released any significant portion of the land base into the hands of the private citizens of the State of Alaska.[More]

For any state to prosper, it has to be economically balanced:

• Too much capitalism and the state tends towards monopolies, oligarchies, and politicians chasing the powerful.
• Too much socialism and the state tends towards an ownership state, crony capitalism, and the powerful chasing politicians.

For any state to prosper, it has to be asset balanced:

•  Too much private land and money, then privileges and land ownership migrates to the few. When the owner is hungry, he over produces and tends to pillage the land. When the owner is not hungry, he tends towards reserves, preserves and the lands are set aside for private use only by the privileged.
• Too much public land, then we have inefficient producers, dependent on other people’s capital, and the common man is eventually prevented from access to those lands. Those lands tend towards reserves, preserves and are set aside for private use only by the privileged. [More]