The fee increase is supposed to address the $11.6 billion maintenance backlog, but at the same time, the Trump administration also wants to cut the National Park Service’s budget by more than $472 million.
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Secretary Zinke’s decision to raise national park entrance fees is the wrong approach to fixing the @NatlParkService maintenance backlog. Our bill, the National Park Service Legacy Act, would address the backlog without raising entrance fees for national park visitors.
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National Park visitors spent approx. $18.4 billion in local economies in 2016, supporting more than 300,000 jobs. This fee increase will make it harder for families to visit their parks, hurting the local economies of the communities around the parks
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So then it would raise fees for those not visiting through taxes? Where is the money coming from
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Are you saying in parallel since I don’t have kids, I shouldn’t have to pay taxes that fund public schools? Ya see, there’s a lot of people that believe in supporting the common good, regardless of whether it’s a direct benefit.
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$240M for missiles. Can we raise the fees on those who voted for Donald “Wag the Dog” Trump?
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So even the National Parks are only for the rich?
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Zinke does not care about national parks beyond how he can personally profit from opening them up to exploitation by industrypic.twitter.com/wAJzG4Ilrr
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They cut taxes so they're raising prices for us in tolls.
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