“We got a feel for how the public felt about the implementation,” Liz Davis, spokeswoman for the park, said. “Word came down at the end of May for how this was going to be structured.”
In response to the feedback, the start date of the fee increase for annual passes will wait until the next calendar year, when existing issued passes were due to expire anyway. The rate for an annual pass will increase from $30 to $40.
The per-person fee, scheduled to increase from $3 to $10 has instead been rolled back to $5, despite the fees’ relatively small use.
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Entering a national park should be generally be free to all US citizens (not just seniors and veterans). User fees for things like camping, life-guarded beaches etc. is fair. But the land (and the maintenance obligations) is ours as citizens and taxpayers. Upping these fees is just more of the relentless nickle and diming of productive citizens. It's wealth redistribution by a thousand cuts.
ReplyDeleteSo will higher fees keep the park open when the government shuts down again?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to find the socialist idiot who came up with the idea that we need "approval" and must pay a "fee" or purchase a "permit" to use and enjoy the land that BELONGS TO US. Fishing, hunting, swimming, walking, and even LOOKING now requires a "permit" and a "fee". WTF!
ReplyDeleteAnd further, to say that if our representatives spend all the money for labor and there isn't a "ranger" to watch us, then we are not ALLOWED(!?????????) to walk on OUR OWN LAND. They close off property that WE paid for, with money TAKEN from us!
We could just go ahead and hang them all. There are PLENTY of trees and lamp posts just waiting for some company and I can't think of a better thing to do with all of these elected and UNELECTED kings and princes.
I wonder how Lewis and Clark managed to walk across the USA, through all of those rivers, mountains, valleys, and plains without a "ranger" telling them it was much too dangerous to be out there without a government agent. Today, they would be broken and bankrupt (after leaving prison, that is) for failing to follow some bureaucrat's "directive".
Keep cheering.