[TN-Bird] Re: birders asked to satisfy greed for revenue ?
- From: Rikki Hall <rikki@xxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:34:08 -0500
It would certainly be terrible if fees of even a fraction of Wallace's
nightmare scenario started cropping up. Such fees would reduce tourism
and the economic benefits it brings to rural communities. Set too high,
such fees could even counteract their intended purpose, raising revenue
for the state, by diminishing sales and entertainment taxes generated by
tourism. Usage fees are a lousy solution to the problem of how to
pay for public lands and natural resource management.
An obvious better solution is to tax those who derive monetary gains
from such lands -- timbering operations, mining, etc. However, such
industries make huge contributions to political campaigns and wine and
dine politicians once they are elected. With the help of the Tennessee
Farm Bureau, they have prevented our state from passing any regulations
on logging whatsoever. As long as we continue to tolerate such
corruptions of the governing process, it will be citizens, not
corporations and industries, paying for public land.
Rikki Hall
Rockford, Blount Co
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