[at-l] OT -- Fee for service -- [WasCost to Enter National Parks may go up...]

[daveh@xxxxxxxxxx (Dave Hicks)]

At the risk of responding to a troll, or being a troller myself, I'm going
to jump in on your discussion of fees.

IMHO, anyone who pushes governmental fee-for-service is actually playing a
shell game to reduce those service, which they don't personally use /
support, and in turn increase their own share of the pie and the taxpayers
subsidy of those governmental services, which they do use.

Have we ever seen truckers propose true fee-for-service toll roads?
Hozbout, truly competitive water / land-use / range fees?  Hozbout,
returning to the colonial version of fire protection?  You paid in advance
for a company / organization to protect your home / place of business / etc.
If you didn't pay, they could watch your place burn.

I am sick of folk who champion the "what is in it for me" at the expense of
the "common good."

Chainsaw

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob C." <ellen@clinic.net>
To: "Orange Bug" <orangebug74@yahoo.com>
Cc: "J Bryan Kramer" <jbryankramer@msn.com>; <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re[4]: [at-l] Cost to Enter National Parks may go up...


Since the Appalachian Trail is largely a National Park facility the
possibility
of fees is surely a proper topic for discussion on a forum devoted to the
Appalachian Trail.

The debate about fees strikes me as constructive. The debate about whether
it is
a proper subject for debate, strikes me as boring, though at least polite --
except for the guy who thinks "It isn't debate, it is trolling," and urges
"let
it pass like the foul gas that made it."

We all, I suspect, post things we regret from time to time. But rather than
defending our foolish remarks, it is better to just let them pass, thus
avoiding
all gases, foul or otherwise.

Weary


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