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Do you think land and natural resources belong to all humans or that they should be privately owned?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    According to libertarians ... it can go either way ...

    "Additionally, some schools are supportive of private property rights in the ownership of unappropriated land and natural resources while others reject such private ownership and often support common ownership instead (Libertarian socialism)."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

    So, if one wants to vacillate f/ left to right and be selective about when they want to lean a direction they should be libertarian.

    I think America should sell some of its federal land as a means to decrease this horrific debt. Andrew Jackson sold federal lands and he balanced the budget.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    the most efficient and effective way to use resources is to allow them to be owned by private individuals!..don't believe me, take a look at what the countries behind the Iron Curtain were like sometime!

  • 8 years ago

    Private land ownership is one of the great things about USA. I worked in Stuttgart for a few years. Really made me appreciate USA.

    Source(s): Sitting on my deck overlooking my 10 acres of lakefront.
  • 8 years ago

    They belong to the person that holds the property rights on a given piece of property. What's so hard about that?

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  • 8 years ago

    Actually private ownership leads to taking care of your property, because you have "skin in the game"... so I'm for private ownership.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The evolution, of this nation... Even under Republican Presidents like Eisenhower, Nixon, & Ford... Was a mix of Socialism, & Capitalism... Ether one, by its self, has proven its self, not to work...

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Definitely humans!! We are all children of this planet. Privatization has ruined the world to be honest. Why should we have to pay to live on this earth that we were born on? This is rightfully our planet and it should be distributed equally among us all.

    Source(s): Personal Belief.
  • John
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Privately owned. Imagine if everything was publicly owned. It would be communism and we all saw that play out many times.l

  • 8 years ago

    A balance of both, but it's difficult to get the right balance.

  • 8 years ago

    Your questioned is misleading. It wouldn't belong to all people, it would belong to the government. That "belong to the people" bullshit is communist propaganda.

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