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21 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3 Oct \ parent \ on: Government Shutdown Shows Why We Need to Decentralize National Parks (2019) econ
- States don't go into shutdowns as often as the feds because their state constitutions require balanced budgets
- Not all of the parks would shutdown at the same time
- States would face political pressure to manage land resources closer to how the residents of the states prefer
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Have you seen state funded parks and places? They just typically cut the funding and don't worry about keeping the place up.
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Due to 1. many will probably not be available in any usable way.
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Again, I've seen how that works with regard to 1. Usually, the place just closes.
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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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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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Yes you can. That's not an argument.
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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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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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You could drive through all the states before there were federal roads.
Yes, wagons could and you might have to take your horse through a river or two. After that, it was hit and miss for a very long time.
Even if they could, why don't the people in a state have the right to decide what roads exist within their state?
Nobody said they do or do not. Instead, I asked how many can a state shut down before you can't reasonably travel there? Now, imagine you need to move army tanks through it, or supply trucks. Does your question still matter in that light?
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There were motor vehicles before 1956 and it's very unlikely we'd ever need the specific federal roads to repel an invasion.
This has also drifted rather far from the initial argument about parks, which has no national security parallel.
To answer your silly question directly, though, there are hundreds of roads connecting the country that are not operated by the feds. There's also no reason why states would seek to shut them down, since their purpose is to facilitate commerce for the states.