• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres), perhaps the Pope can grace us all by paying property taxes from this point onward? The church’s unimaginable wealth should be able to cover it… everybody else manages it somehow.

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      7 hours ago

      Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

      Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

      The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States…

      I’d also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

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        5 hours ago

        And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.

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          5 hours ago

          This caused a lot of problems when the state courts tried to protect Native American lands being leveled by the Trump admin because of his bullshit wall but the federal government just outright ignored them.

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        5 hours ago

        Russia being a dictatorship implies they have total unquestionable control of all of Russian territory, which would put them at the top of the list by a lot.