Volume XX No.36: September 4, 2015
Over the years, taxpayers have lost big from the sale of federal assets, including natural resources like oil, gas, coal, and timber. The government sells leases for federal lands and waters so that private industries can extract, drill, and harvest these valuable resources. And there is nothing wrong with that. But when the feds fall asleep at the wheel, taxpayers are hit when the receipts crash.
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