The federal government controls over 90% of the land in the Western United States and Alaska, and is currently using your stolen tax dollars to buy up more land, often using compulsory sales from owners, or even outright confiscation of land, despite a prohibition in the Constitution called the "Takings clause."  

What they cannot acquire they frequently by fiat, declare the land pristine, and not available for any development (or disturbance).  This is private property, but the government can say, "We think this is suitable habitat for the dark nosed warble snail.  An endangered species."  And poof, even without proving there is such a specimen on your  land, you suddenly cannot literally go onto your own property. 

Property owners have gone to prison, or even been murdered by government goons for trespassing on their own property, or enforcing their property claims from government trespass. 

Wake up Arizonans!  Just like the money they print, the government believes they are merely renting you your property, and can take it away from you any time they wish.  Heck, if you really owned your property, could they tax it? 

Have you ever noticed the checkerboard pattern between government land and private land.  This is so government can essentially buy up twice as much land.  The land they “own,” and the private adjacent land they deny access to. 

If you cannot get to your property, what good is owning it.  And good luck selling it to anyone other than the government. 

Privately owned lands are cared for, because the owner has a vested financial interest in owning the land.  Public lands are owned by no one, and are not welled cared for, because visitors who have no vested interest in the land, do little to maintain the land, but are more than happy to consume "free" resources. 

The government instituted a “no burn” policy in its National Forests and Parks at the beginning of the 20^th Century.  But by the early 1970's, alarm bells were being set off that fuel accumulation on the forest floor was allowing unnatural conflagrations to completely decimate forests when a fire occurred. 

Mother nature had already equipped forests to readily survive fires, and spring back to life.  Indeed, certain species actually depended upon the occasional fire sweeping through for its seeds to germinate.  Such species fared poorly under the government plan (what doesn't).  Instead, a fire carves out giant swaths of forest, reducing everything to ashes.  What emerges are treeless fields.   

Despite knowing this policy was killing the forests, the Forest Service to this day continues to battle forest fires that pose no threat to buildings, and debate what policy should be implemented to clear the forest floors of their enormous fuel loads.  Meanwhile, the forests burn. 

We also have the banning of shooting ranges, and hunting in the forests, with the concurrent over population of game animals, and overgrazing of precious rare species of plants.  In many areas an ecological disaster has occurred, all so the gun banners and Bambi lovers are placated.  As the colony or herd sizes of these animals grows dense, mother nature provides a remedy.  Disease spreads through herds like wild fires, decimating these animals.  In many cases these diseases, which used to be rare, are now spreading to rarer non-game animals. 

Government has enormous debt.  Even if we waved a magic wand, and were able to eliminate the debt, your CONgressmen would be back tomorrow ramping up the debt.  Remember the “Peace Dividend,” that was to occur after we won the Cold War that you had been paying trillions of dollars, and your children's lives for, over so many decades?  Not one CONgressman wanted to return that money to you, in the form of closing down government “defense” spending and lowering your taxes.  Oh, no!  They envisioned how they were going to spend the money elsewhere on the projects they salivated over.   And they did.

The U.S. land holdings would well cover the debt of this country.  Were it a perfect world, we would return all BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land, which belongs to the respective State to that State, and all remaining federal lands would be auctioned off to the highest bidders.  With the money paying off the debt, and the residuals invested into private holdings, with the interest being the only money that CONgress could ever appropriate again, without being held personally financially liable.