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The Sacramento Bee is park crazy. No matter where, no matter how much, no matter we can not maintain it, the Bee loves to buy up parks likes kids like to buy candy.
Kids get fat and tooth decay, government get debts and deficits.
"The Sacramento Bee is nothing if not persistent in its push for higher taxes to pay for the state’s park system, as evidenced by its umpteen-part series last summer prior to the failed state parks bond. The Bee stoked fears of a park crime wave in order to push for higher taxes/fees, which is the Bee’s solution to pretty much every problem — no surprise for the house organ for government employees.
As I wrote at the time, “But there’s no reason to be alarmed — unless one is a Bee editor and happens to look closely at the level of alarmist reporting. The series doesn’t document a crime wave so much as it details how the Nanny State criminalizes even the most modest rule-breaking. We don’t see a rash of violence or assault, but the increased willingness of law enforcement to treat smoking, drinking, rafting without life preservers, noise-making and trespassing as crimes, rather than as the normal rule-breaking that has been found at parks since time immemorial.”
We need more jobs and no new parks--we have plenty. Save the family first.
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Kids get fat and tooth decay, government get debts and deficits.
"The Sacramento Bee is nothing if not persistent in its push for higher taxes to pay for the state’s park system, as evidenced by its umpteen-part series last summer prior to the failed state parks bond. The Bee stoked fears of a park crime wave in order to push for higher taxes/fees, which is the Bee’s solution to pretty much every problem — no surprise for the house organ for government employees.
As I wrote at the time, “But there’s no reason to be alarmed — unless one is a Bee editor and happens to look closely at the level of alarmist reporting. The series doesn’t document a crime wave so much as it details how the Nanny State criminalizes even the most modest rule-breaking. We don’t see a rash of violence or assault, but the increased willingness of law enforcement to treat smoking, drinking, rafting without life preservers, noise-making and trespassing as crimes, rather than as the normal rule-breaking that has been found at parks since time immemorial.”
We need more jobs and no new parks--we have plenty. Save the family first.
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