That was among the concerns. It also would have been political suicide for them to allow that much land to be taken by the state to create the railroad. Of course, the unstated part is that all of that land would over the course of the decade by farming conglomerates that the Republicans let off the leash. So most of them were going to lose the land anyways, it was only a matter of if they lost it to private or public interests.
Every time people mention farmers not wanting to give up land for railways I'm like, for fuck sakes it's not even that much land, it's not a highway with 150 meters of clearance in each direction, it's a fucking rail line and after is built you can safely cultivate the clearances and not pay land taxes on it, who's gonna complain? the railway? the ones getting someone to maintain the clearances free of trees and the maintenance roads driveable for free?
Yeah you won't be able to put cattle nor sugar cane in it, but you can sure as hell cultivate it, and demand them to put as many "cattle-bridges" big enough to fit a combine as you want, unlike fucking highways!
That was among the concerns. It also would have been political suicide for them to allow that much land to be taken by the state to create the railroad. Of course, the unstated part is that all of that land would over the course of the decade by farming conglomerates that the Republicans let off the leash. So most of them were going to lose the land anyways, it was only a matter of if they lost it to private or public interests.
Every time people mention farmers not wanting to give up land for railways I'm like, for fuck sakes it's not even that much land, it's not a highway with 150 meters of clearance in each direction, it's a fucking rail line and after is built you can safely cultivate the clearances and not pay land taxes on it, who's gonna complain? the railway? the ones getting someone to maintain the clearances free of trees and the maintenance roads driveable for free?
Yeah you won't be able to put cattle nor sugar cane in it, but you can sure as hell cultivate it, and demand them to put as many "cattle-bridges" big enough to fit a combine as you want, unlike fucking highways!
FUCK
but my land :frothingfash: