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The Solution to US Debt? Sell Alaska
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 30115955:MV8yMDg0NjQyXzM1MTAxMTg2XzFBMjZCMjhF] No there is oil up there. Instead sell Puerto Rico, since it is only a commonwealth and full of nothing but freeloaders who drain our economy. Sure no one will give us 2 cents for that hell hole but at least we will save money feeding those bums. . [/quote]
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The prospect of once again hitting the federal debt ceiling has provoked the ritual round of hand-wringing about the intractable nature of this $US16 trillion conundrum. But there is a simple, elegant option that involves no tax increases, no spending cuts and just a bit of imagination.
Sell Alaska.
That's right. Put the entire state - from Juneau to Deadhorse, from the Bering Strait to the Beaufort Sea - on the auction block.
Absurd? No more absurd than the spectacle taking place right now as we skid closer to the fiscal cliff.
Selling real estate at top dollar is all about timing, and now's a great time to unload the Klondike state. The federal government, which owns 69 per cent of Alaska, could cash in on the vast, resource-rich state at a time when oil prices are high and wild salmon is flying off the shelves at Whole Foods. Selling Alaska could fetch at least $US2.5 trillion ($A2.4 trillion) and maybe twice that amount, enough to lop off a huge chunk of the national debt and perhaps as much money as President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner hope to save or raise over the next decade.
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