Northeast Assembly Thread

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Polnut- Aye
Homelycooking- Aye
Dallasfan- Aye
Napoleon- Aye

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On the bill: Aye.
For lieutenant governor: Wormyguy.

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Shall the SRC be given until the 20th day?

• Yes

[ ] No

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I support the SRC report and will vote for a veto override.

In regards to the Northeast parks and recreation act, I cannot support taking away user fees from parks. We need to fund those parks somehow, whether it is through user fees or through taxes. I strongly feel that those who are actually using the parks should at least pay for a part of the costs.

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In regards to the Northeast parks and recreation act, I cannot support taking away user fees from parks. We need to fund those parks somehow, whether it is through user fees or through taxes. I strongly feel that those who are actually using the parks should at least pay for a part of the costs.

User fees are not completely taken away, though they are reduced significantly (assuming most of the visitors to our parks are NE residents). We'd have to determine how our parks are currently being paid for and whether admission fees are sufficient for their maintainance.

I can see why we might want to make entry fees higher for non-residents, but I still don't think we should take away all user fees for residents. They should also help pay for the parks, but they can pay less since they are also paying taxes which go towards the operation of parks as well.

Also keep in mind that while some popular parks near the cities might be able to get enough money from non-residents to pay all of it's costs, I doubt that will be the case in more remote parks which might be protecting very important habitats. The user fees from the more popular parks also help support parks that might not get as many visitors.

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Are all state parks "unimproved" lands? What if they have hiking trails and visitor centers? Did we just give away whatever wilderness that is left in the Northeast?

And I guess it's about time we got rid of our wilderness. It's such a waste of space. I am sure Native Americans of the 1600s would have felt the same way.

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I vote aye to override the veto on the SRC report.

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The particularly polluted stream of 'libertarianism' - "taxation is theft"  - the state should not own anything... that's how it fits.

Giving away land for free is theft from the taxpayer. Anyone subscribing to that particular style of libertarian needs to get their head out of the sand and their fingers out of the ears.

I just don't understand why these dumb laws mean so much to wormy that he is willing to make a mockery of our region and constitution to preserve them. I thought we were working together pretty well until this whole mess started.

Wormy had proven through his actions on Atlasia that he has some real issues. He needs help.

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How is Napoleon hackish? What does this have to do with party?

Anyways a "real" libertarian would have given all of the stolen property back, not just the portions you don't want. You are all for helping Native Americans, as long as you aren't inconvenienced. What a joke.

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How is Napoleon hackish? What does this have to do with party?

I just said why.

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Well, actually it wouldn't inconvenience me in the slightest if such a policy were implemented in Atlasia.

There are practical limits to my beliefs: something which would cause such a massive disturbance and would require a massive use of coercive force - such as the forcible ethnic cleansing of a highly populated area - does not jibe with what I would consider legitimate.  However, that doesn't mean that there aren't smaller things that can't be made right without causing massive harm to tens of millions of people, and this is one of them.

But why give away wilderness areas for development? I have no problems if the Natives want access to their sacred grounds. I would be surprised if that wasn't already the case. But if they want to build a Casino in the middle of the Adirondacks..yeah I oppose that. And so would their ancestors, obviously. But dollar is king....

If you want, we can do a homestead act of sorts for Natives, giving them land which is adjacent to developed land. The practical effect of your bill as currently written would be to destroy the last refuges of nature in the Northeast. That is unnecessary to do to help Native Americans. Now on the other hand if your goal is to ruin wilderness areas....

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