<p>MiamiDAP writes ^This should be a private business position, government that pays salary out of our taxes should not be involved with that. </p>
<p>It can’t really be a private business position because the activity is for a service on public lands. Sure you could contract it out and charge a fee for those who enter the park but that’s just playing around with who pays the tax and whether you call it a tax or a fee. </p>
<p>A lot of people want to cut government. But then they offset the cut in personnel by paying government contractors to do the same service. Companies who sell mainly to the US government are not more efficient than US govt employees. Often they cost a lot more.</p>