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In article <3vo6bq$gfa@rational.rational.com> donb@rational.com (Don Baccus) writes:
    >Phil Ronzone (phil@netcom.com) wrote:
    >>I'd suggest you take a course in micro-economics. Since the
    >>State controls (sets) the initial (non-market) price, and in
    >>some states, controls who can use the land and how, there is
    >>no market.
    >>
    >As has been pointed out many times, in some instances the
    >leaseholder turns around and sub-leases the allotment, at
    >market price, and pockets the difference.
    >
    >The fact the leaseholder can do so would seem to indicate two
    >things to me:
    >
    >1. There is a market. 2. The government is charging less than
    >market price.
    >
    >It's also true that some states lease their holdings on a
    >competitive bid basis. Lands leased in such a manner bring in
    >more than the pitiful $1.6x/AUM we get for our federal lands.

Don, there's a huge market for my ideas. I'm subsidizing you right now
because I let you have them for free. That is, below market price.
And I can *prove* that there is a market, because you in turn use
my ideas and send them to others.

Wow! Everything's a market, everything's a market ...

Oh, you mean you want to actually SEE other people willing to fork out
money for these ideas?

I'm sure I can find somebody sympathetic. Or, better yet, perhaps someone
willing to pay me NOT to use my ideas, like Nature, ah, er, Idea Conservancy.

That'd prove there is a market, right?

Double snicker ...


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