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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:06 PM Jun 2015

Elimination Of Tax Funding For (WI) State Parks Approved By Budget Committee

http://www.wpr.org/elimination-tax-funding-state-parks-approved-budget-committee

State tax funding for Wisconsin’s state parks would be zeroed out and user fees would go up under a plan approved by Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee Thursday.

Republicans agreed with Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut more than $4.5 million in state funding from the parks each year. They would would make up part of that money by increasing fees on park users and campers. Hazelhurst Republican Sen. Tom Tiffany said that made sense....

However, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau found there are no other state park systems that are entirely self-sufficient. Democratic Rep. Chris Taylor of Madison said trying to do it in Wisconsin was reckless.

"I don’t know why we would go on down this risky scheme — that’s never, ever worked for any state — and (gamble) with our park system," said Taylor.

But, but, but what about the...

(yes, that is in Wisconsin

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Elimination Of Tax Funding For (WI) State Parks Approved By Budget Committee (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2015 OP

Let them fall into disrepair from years of neglect Warpy Jun 2015 #1

For the curious, Jackpine Radical Jun 2015 #2

Did he invent the... KamaAina Jun 2015 #3

No, he was going to, but a big scandal erupted Jackpine Radical Jun 2015 #7

DUzy!! KamaAina Jun 2015 #11

At the other end of the state, the high from the Bong Bridge provides trips HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #5

No problem!! Mining concessions inside those parks will make up the difference. HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #4

I've been sorta waiting for them to just sell the parks. Jackpine Radical Jun 2015 #6

YES. That is the ultimate neoliberal plan for public parks. HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #8

they don't need to sell them cali Jun 2015 #9

If user fees increase, what about property taxes? Archae Jun 2015 #10

Warpy

(111,261 posts)

1. Let them fall into disrepair from years of neglect

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:18 PM

Jun 2015

and the people won't mind selling them off to frackers and then developers.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

2. For the curious,

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:19 PM

Jun 2015

Richard Bong was a local boy who became a super-ace in fighters during WWII. Last I was up there, his plane was on view in a little public wayside. I knew people who knew him. He was well-liked & was something of a risk-taking maniac. He was killed while test-piloting an experimental aircraft a couple of years after the war.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

3. Did he invent the...

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:20 PM

Jun 2015

..oh, never mind.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

7. No, he was going to, but a big scandal erupted

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 08:46 PM

Jun 2015

when he got caught with a hookah.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

11. DUzy!!

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 11:11 PM

Jun 2015

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

5. At the other end of the state, the high from the Bong Bridge provides trips

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:34 PM

Jun 2015

between Superior and Duluth

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

4. No problem!! Mining concessions inside those parks will make up the difference.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:32 PM

Jun 2015

And all those flat-landers that come up from Illinois can not only afford the fee increases, they'll greatly appreciate that there are fewer lower income Wisconsinites pulling down the ratio of beautiful people in those parks.