Monday, December 10, 2007

Enough with the baby drowning

-- by Dave

My latest post at The Big Con is up. It's a discussion of the effort to end the Bush administration's corporate scam on public lands, the "RAT tax", it's titled "The Phonies in the Woods":
It's a sure indicator that all-out rot has begun to sink into conservatism as a governing philosophy when even people in the red states that normally constitute the right's electoral base begin to figure that there's something wrong here.

The point no doubt came home for many of them the past three years when they decided to go fishing or camping somewhere and found that they were being expected to fork over even more money at the trailhead -- with the money actually going toward the private development of business on those lands.

Last week, Sens. Max Baucus, D-Montana, and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, introduced legislation that would bring an end to the Bush administration's scheme to make the public pay twice for using public lands, all to the benefit of the resource-extraction industry.

Hope you enjoy. Will have a regular post up later today here.

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