No surprise from me. Those lands were never set up to make up a huge amount of funding for schools--they never have and never will. However, the push to make them "profitable" will do nothing more than make those natural resources a profit center for others. $20,000 certainly isn't enough to fund schools to any meaningful level. Perhaps there really is a need to destroy some sick trees, but it is likely not coincidence that this move follows closely on the heels of a bill that passed...

Sometimes what the people want and what they don't want are conflicting. If we want roads without potholes, bridges that don't collapse, to decrease traffic congestion, make sure children are fed and given medical treatment, make sure the working poor aren't living on the streets, then we must find a way to pay for it. If it upsets soccer moms to pay a little extra on their Abercrombie clothing rather than some shirts from Target, it's just a little bit too bad. The overall result of...

I love his answer, which amounted to "I plan to have more supporters."

But most people don't own a luxury SUV, nor can they afford to. That's a big problem when looking at the cost of handing out electrical cars. While it would be lovely to replace all those monstrous Escalades with reasonably sized electric cars, it would do very little to improve transportation woes in the cities. And, besides which, however would rich people fit their apparently gigantic children into such small spaces?

Even if we presumed that most middle class households could...