The best answer is clearly option #1. Your option #2 would sell off
use of the parks to the highest bidder rather than preserve use for
the general public. I worry that the administration has shared your
thoughts on this subject.
Everyone now pays to take care of our common national heritage, the
parks and refuges. I certainly pay plenty in taxes. I also pay
extra taxes as entrance fees each time I enter. As long as I have no
more impact on resources or costs than any other park visitor I
should pay no extra than any of my fellow citizens. If I write a
poem or book about my experience the government shouldn't charge me
an extra user fee. If I sell a copy of a photo I've taken there I
shouldn't have to pay any more for the park use than the other
millions who also paid a park entrance fee and took photos. If I
listen to the birds and record their sounds I shouldn't pay any more
than anyone else hiking the woods and listening to the same sounds.
Your example of radio frequency use is irrelevant. A commercial user
of a radio frequency impairs or prohibits use by other users. My
recording of a sound in no way impairs others from listening and
enjoying the same sound. If I take a photo of Old Faithful I have
not prevented anyone else on the boardwalk from taking their own photos.
Kevin Colver
On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Bruce Wilson wrote:
> Well, which is an example of more governmental control: (1) charging
> everyone to take care of the national parks, or (2) just those who
> make
> money off the parks?
>
> Option (2) results in fewer regulations dictating the behavior of the
> average citizen, lower taxes, higher fees for those who use the
> resource,
> and less government-subsidized entrepreneurial enterprise.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's what Bush ran on.
>
> There is also a big change on the airwaves: in 2008 the high UHF
> band will
> close to TV use and be auctioned off. It will make the government
> billions
> of dollars, and probably be bought by internet broadband providers
> (Yahoo,
> Google, and the like running long-range broadband networks; we'll
> see who
> has the most money available).
>
> Bruce Wilson
> http://science.uvsc.edu/wilson
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From:
>
> |On Behalf Of Kevin Colver
> |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:23 PM
> |To:
> |Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] New Rules Last Day to Post a Comment
> |
> |Regarding the rules to control recording of sounds
> |
> |Doesn't President Bush stand for:
> |Less government control?
> |Fewer government regulations?
> |Lower fees and taxes?
> |More private enterprise?
> |
> |So why are we seeing these new regulations that increase government
> |control by imposing new government regulations to charge new fees and
> |taxes and inhibit private enterprise?
> |
> |Baffled and disappointed.
> |
> |Kevin
> |
> |Kevin Colver
> |
>
>
>
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