oklahoma has a law against foreign ownership of land now. the chinese and other are using a holding company formed by cooperative us citizens to own and control the lands.I wouldn’t have a problem restricting land ownership to citizens, but I’m not sure where you draw that line. Citizens of OK? Texans need not apply? Citizens of USA only? Is that Constitutional? Any of it? Seems like a pretty slippery slope for a bunch of Constitution loving, 2nd Amendment supporting gun owners.
Do homes count? How about commercial developments?
I don’t like it anymore than anyone else, but I do not and will not blame the landowners for cashing in. Land is worth, just like everything else in this world, what someone else is willing to pay. Just like ammunition, guns, cars, whiskey etc, etc, etc., with the large exception of “they ain’t making any more dirt”.
If you don’t want non-citizens buying up property, then someone is going to have to pay more for it than the non-citizen is willing to pay.
At some point, when the legislature fixes the pot growing laws in this state, some of that foreigner owned land is going to be back on the market at way less than what those dirty rotten foreign scoundrels paid. The legislature is to blame for the lax pot laws that allowed this to happen. I’m just shocked OK lawmakers screwed the pooch on that. It’s so unlike them to do something like that.