Ritzwatch
Life's a party and I am the guest of honor.
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I do understand this. I was mostly just picking fun at the notion that only government can run these natural attractions. I am also bothered by giving the government control of business endeavors, that is, to use our tax dollars to try to invest in money making business activities to enrich the state; that just seems a too fascist to me. The government should make us safe and provide an environment where Americans can prosper, it should not be in the business of business. They shouldn't tax me (taking my money) to pay for programs in an effort to make the government more money.
We Americans, at some point, have to address our spending issues. A suggestion as to a small step in the right direction could be to place public lands into conservation easements which would protect natural wonders, and then to contract with private enterprise to manage those lands. If the lands do truly make a profit, and not just show a profit due to subsidies, I suspect there will be plenty of contractors bidding on the work. They will likely employ the exact same people who were doing the work anyway. Win/win - let private business carry the cost of employees, health care, retirement, etc., and let government focus on governing, not cleaning bathrooms and repairing hiking trails.
Of course, any savings from this would be but a drop in the bucket compared to the real drains on our federal budget, one of which is, increasingly, interest on our national debt, for which we receive no new current or future benefit.
