BLM access about to be lost
There is a fantastic BLM dispersed camping site in Colorado on the Arkansas River that is in danger of being converted from free BLM camping to an expensive, reservation only campground run by the sta...
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4runnerguy wrote:
They are looking for ways to get more money in some other way than raising taxes.
Exactly.
All sorts of people who work for the government (state, local, federal) are under intense pressure to provide more services without raising taxes. Since government programs already tend to have far, far less overhead and waste than private companies, the solution tends to be user fees.
Personally, I think this is a completely unethical situation. The reason we chose to create a representative government in the first place was to 'provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,' etc. In other words, to do things that benefit everyone. User fees are antithetical to that.
In the construction business where I live, permit fees are now more than the cost of materials for building a house. This is wrong -- safe buildings benefit everyone, not just the people living in them. I sure as heck am glad my neighbor's houses meet fire code.
/rant.
