There should be no Federal Highways either...except for the ones that cross Lake Ontario to Canada.
I am totally in support of that idea.
Particularly if it will get rid of that annoying PSA on my radio where Julia Louis-Dreyfus whines on and on about how our national parks are “underfunded”.
I have a better idea...auction them off to the PRIVATE sector and use the coin to PAY DOWN THE DEBT!
Michigan should never have given its parks over to the Feds in the first place. We ran Sleepy Bear Dunes just fine on our own. Raise the fees some, but keep the states in control.
There’s nobody at Yellowstone to turn on the geysers.
ALL land within a state should be the property of and controlled by the state. Period. We should not have a National Park Service, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, etc, etc. Revenue for leases should be going to the state. Sale of land should be at the discretion of the state. Western states are burdened with huge, large, enormous tracts of land that are not taxable and vertually non productive.
Great idea. And in the interim what Republican governors who have national parks / monuments / etc. in their state should do is activate the National Guard and assign them to keep the facilities open during the the “shut down”. Think of the optics of a confrontation between park rangers and armed guardsmen as they work to let the masses enjoy “their” property. And think of the good will that would be generated towards those governors.
This is a perfect opportunity for a real public uprising against Obama.
Got an even better idea—open most nat’l park land to homesteaders.
Sorry, but I haven’t known of any state assembly persons who weren’t as communist/fascist as any federal politicians. They’re also robbers and thieves for their more influential constituents. May as well privatize it all.
Sorry, but this is a dumb idea. Why would states want to make a huge capital investment in taxpayers’ moneys in order to acquire an “asset” that costs them an immense amount of taxpayers’ money each year to keep open?
US National Parks are under the control of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the institutional sponsor of the World Heritage Committee.
Grace, when you posted this I thought it was a bad idea. I just want you to know that after hearing about all of the asshattery and thuggery on the part of the National Park Service Police I’m now with you. Return the parks and the lands to the states and defund, debadge, and de-gun the Park Service Police!!!