Sonny Clark
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #41
The land belongs to the government. It has value. It can be sold by the government. It can just sit there and not cost anyone anything. The government can choose to do nothing with it, therefore cost the taxpayers nothing. The national parks generate revenue. They have millions of paying visitors each year, and some are not U.S. taxpaying citizens. They take in $Millions in revenue each year from visitors. That revenue supports the parks. And, no one is kicking anything down the road.Yes, but they still own the land. The land has value.Technically, the government owns millions of acres of land, our national parks and national forest. They collect revenue from visitors to those parks and forests. Also, they lease drilling rights to oil companies that drill off-shore. They do generate income. But, if you really want to get technical-technical, the American people own America. There are different ways to look at it.In theory government has no money, unless they tax. They create currency, but the value of the currency is the production of the American worker and what people attach to that. This is why government merely redistributes money, and it does so at a loss in value due to the labor it requires to redistribute.
But they already use our tax dollars to run and maintain those parks.
So in essence we payed for the business that now charges us the price of admission.
A value they cant realize without the tax payers money.
You can keep kicking the can down the road but it always ends up coming out of the tax payers wallet at some point.