Delta Force
Banned
The United States has had city owned utilities such as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and federally owned utilities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bonneville Power Administration. Tennessee at one point operated Brushy Mountain State Prison, which was built so that convicts could mine a nearby coal deposit, and at one point the University of Austin was authorized to buy, own, and lease lands for petroleum and mineral development to finance the Permanent University Fund. For more value-added industrial applications, North Dakota even has the North Dakota Mill and Elevator, which is the largest grain mill in the United States and produces flour and bread/pancake mixes.
How plausible would it be for an American state to do things on a much larger scale, creating a firm that would directly use resources on public lands owned by the state, perhaps expanding into operations on private and federal lands like other companies? Could it even be something done in more libertarian states as a way to reduce taxes, since the government could receive revenues from state-owned firms?
How plausible would it be for an American state to do things on a much larger scale, creating a firm that would directly use resources on public lands owned by the state, perhaps expanding into operations on private and federal lands like other companies? Could it even be something done in more libertarian states as a way to reduce taxes, since the government could receive revenues from state-owned firms?