The cost of housing goes up as the land available for housing diminishes and the environmental costs to new construction escalate. Valuable water, mineral, timber, recreational, and agricultural resources on public lands are put off limits, driving up prices and causing congestion and ecological degradation on the remaining lands. Private property owners have their homes, farms, ranches, and businesses taken without due process or just compensation. Whole communities decline as productive property is removed from the tax rolls, local industries are strangled, and jobs are replaced with unemployment and welfare. The Real Wetlands Destroyer Calling on the federal government to take more control over more wetlands is like calling on the militant child molesters of the North American Man-Boy Love Association to take over the nation's day care centers.
Federal control is a prescription for the destruction of genuine wetlands.
It comes as a shock to most folks to learn that fedgov, not private enterprise, is responsible for most of our real wetlands losses. But that should not be surprising, since government has always and everywhere led the way in environmental destruction. But we need not venture to foreign lands to witness eco-debacles wrought by socialist malfeasance. There are examples aplenty at home from more than a century of misguided federal policies. The once-endangered bison now thrive under private ownership.