It’s peak tourist season here in the U.S. Also, Americans are fighting because we want a vastly larger and more powerful government than can be funded with the taxes that we’re willing to pay. Here’s a reminder that our National Parks could be run at a huge profit if we charged the same prices that the Chileans and Navajo charge for similar experiences.
From two years ago… What if our National Parks charged Navajo prices?
We’re still charging less than 1/25th of what the Chileans charge (assume a 15-day vacation for four European visitors who currently buy an $80 annual pass) and stuffing the National Park Service full of $billions in general tax revenue (collected from the working class who already have had to pay for the deferred or forgiven student loans of the gender studies graduates). Americans assume that it is impossible for an entity to turn a profit after receiving, for free, some of the world’s most valuable land. The idea that this entity must be forever propped up by tax revenues collected from those who will never see any of this land is accepted uncritically.
I’m not sure how disturbed I should be by this, but it looks like Donald Trump has been thinking along the same lines. WSJ:
After 40 years of dating, as one who isn’t a multimillionare, the government should be paying all the attainable women to go to the national parks.
It has been my experience that all the women at national parks are either with a man already (spoken for) or lesbian, so attainable women don’t go there.
I endorse this. And citizens get to reserve campsites, passes, etc. nine months out. Foreigners five. (FL does this for its state parks.) Getting a timed entry pass to Rocky Mountain National Park Bear Lake Road was like trying to get Pearl Jam tickets: multiple family members all logged in and clicking…