One thing I hear from various people online is that this would help pay off the national debt but what is overlooked in Lee's proposal is that this land isn't being sold by the Federal Government to the end buyer, it is being given to State and Local Governments who in turn would be the agencies doing the final sale. What does this mean? The release of Federal land to the States does nothing to pay towards the National Debt.

Here's Lee's own quote on this issue: "“Washington has proven time and again it can’t manage this land. This bill puts it in better hands,” Lee said last Thursday."

Lee and other Utah Senetors and Reps have been pushing this for years as a means to help put more money in the pockets of their local land developers.