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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: TimF who wrote (8573)4/12/2002 4:00:15 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
There are commons that are shared, like air and parkland, where the entity is not severable into individual properties. Then there are commons that are marketable, like grazing and fish.

For the shared commons, I think that the government has a responsibility to regulate so that the safety and fair use of other users is not compromised. That regulation could take a variety of forms. Regulators would need to determine what was safe and what was fair and regulate use as unobtrusively as possible so that it remained so.

For the marketable commons, I think we do have property rights,in a way. We each own a share of the gold or oil under the ground of public lands. If those resources are to be extracted and sold, we should get a fair return. I would favor a bidding process to assure a fair price for us shareholders and a reasonable cost to the businesses that extract the resources. There also needs to be a stewardship role for the government to manage the renewability or the rate of extraction in the interests of posterity.
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