Sen. Tom Tancredo has suggested selling some of the 650 million acres of federal lands to pay for Katrina relief.
The feds are sitting on a lot of unused real estate--it isn't all national forest and parks, it is all kinds of commercial and agricultural property too. And the feds actually have no clue what all they own. Reason proposed a system for inventorying and selling excess federal land--check out What's in the Government's Attic?
