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Government Shutdown Shows Why We Need to Decentralize National Parks (2019)mises.org/mises-wire/government-shutdown-shows-why-we-need-decentralize-national-parks
258 sats \ 11 comments \ @Undisciplined 3 Oct econ

By Ryan McMaken

It’s considered normal for DC bureaucrats to decide if you can use an outhouse 2,500 miles

Supposedly, there's a real push to return a lot of federal lands to the states, as well as privatizing a bunch of it. Let's hope. The western US is subjected to a crazy amount of artificial land scarcity.

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42 sats \ 10 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 3 Oct

I'm not sure how the states receiving the parks would help. Their funding is just as likely to stop as the federal government funding is.

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21 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3 Oct
  1. States don't go into shutdowns as often as the feds because their state constitutions require balanced budgets
  2. Not all of the parks would shutdown at the same time
  3. States would face political pressure to manage land resources closer to how the residents of the states prefer
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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 3 Oct
  1. Have you seen state funded parks and places? They just typically cut the funding and don't worry about keeping the place up.
  2. Due to 1. many will probably not be available in any usable way.
  3. Again, I've seen how that works with regard to 1. Usually, the place just closes.
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3 Oct

I have seen many state parks that were not and continue not to be closed.

For the sake of argument, though, if that is what the people of the state want to be done to that land in their state, why should the feds intervene?

Why should my money be taken and sent to another state to maintain a park there that they don't even want enough to fund themselves?

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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 3 Oct
Why should my money be taken and sent to another state to maintain a park there that they don't even want enough to fund themselves?

Could ask the same thing about roads.

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11 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3 Oct

Yes you can. That's not an argument.

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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 3 Oct
That's not an argument.

That's because it is an observation. How many roads could a state shutdown, do you think, before the state becomes impossible to travel through?

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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3 Oct

Why would they do that?

You could drive through all the states before there were federal roads.

Even if they could, why don't the people in a state have the right to decide what roads exist within their state?

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