I don’t think the ubiquitous neighborhood parks withing walking distance from your front door, which is really an open field with few amenities could survive if it was manned and gated with an entrepreneur collecting a fees for profit. If someone thought that was a working profit model, I’d think it would have already be in common practice. If the citizen want to pay the taxes for them, and have the ability to remove the service by voting to whether the parks exist or not, they can knock themselves out by going for it.
Not even Doug Bruce, et al, has brought up the idea to get rid of the city parks.
It may not work. The question is ... if people will pay for something with someone else’s tax money, but clam-up when you ask for their money ... is it really valuable to them?
If not ... why bother? People vote with their money ... people waste with other people’s money.
SnakeDoc
>> If the citizen want to pay the taxes for them, and have the ability to remove the service by voting to whether the parks exist or not, they can knock themselves out by going for it.
We, of all people, know that just because the majority votes for something (out of the treasury) does not mean it is an appropriate function of government.
SnakeDoc