National Parks for the 1 Percent
But the Trump administration has proposed nearly tripling the entrance fees to select national parks, to $70.
.. Trump administration wants to jack up the price of admission to our most spectacular public lands while moving to cut the Park Service budget by almost $300 million. The new fees would add $70 million.
.. he also plans to take away land already protected in ways similar to national parks.
.. You’d pay $107 to get into Disney World. But national parks are not theme parks, market-driven to match the latest entertainment blockbusters.
.. In the bizarro world of this administration, taxpayers are being asked to subsidize a dying industry, coal mining, while their government is slashing the budget for a growing one that is responsible for four times as many jobs.
.. Trump’s budget would drastically cut money for historic preservation, and eliminate more than 1,200 full-time employees.
.. National parks are “as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical,
.. We could, for instance, not build Trump’s nonsensical border wall, which looks like it will cost upward of $20 billion, more than eight times the entire proposed budget for the Park Service. (Wait — wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for that?)
.. Or we could keep the estate tax, which affects only about 1 out of every 500 people who die every year, and raises $20 billion as well.