Nightly Answer To Ethan Millard's Tweets. August 22, 2010

Ethan Millard is the nighttime anchor for KSL's evening show, The Nightside Project. He is a liberal who is on air only to balance all of the conservatism on talk radio.

Here are three of his tweets from tonight.

Take Back Utah!! Because theft, vandalism, & grave desecration are not just a hobby, they're a way of life.

Take Back Utah! Because you haven't lived until you've driven your ATV illegally through sensitive wilderness study areas. (Aug 22, 2011 04:30 PM)

What happened to our community that we raised a generation of politically ambitious who play so poorly with people not like them? (Aug 22, 2011 04:28 PM)

Answer to the Take Back Utah Tweets:

If you think that Take Back Utah is all about reclaiming wilderness so that we can ATV all over it you have missed the point. 70% of the state of Utah is held just by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Forest Service. Some of this land can be used for recreation, ranching and other activities. Most of this land is locked away. Some Utah counties have almost all of their land either owned by some entity of the Federal Government. Garfield County has 97% of their land owned by the Feds. This land can not be taxed by the county. Any wonder why their county mounties drive 40-year-old vehicles and why their poorly paid teachers have the largest class sizes in the nation? The county has not money, because there is no property tax revenue.

Take back Utah is about freeing land from the Federal Government to state and county control. That is the privilege that most states east of the Mississippi have. The land can be properly developed and taxed by the local authorities. Then those counties will have the funds to pay for quality policy service and for quality public education.

If you are concerned about ATV ridership, keep in mind a rancher who lives on the property that he owns has an easier time keeping rouge ATV riders than a Sheriff's deputy driving a 1978 Ford Bronco.

About our politicians not playing nice together. I simply ask when was the last time you voted for someone promising to go to Washington and play nice?