{"id":3250,"date":"2015-03-24T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2015-03-24T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:30:35","slug":"mountain-accords-agenda-get-taxpayers-fund-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/24\/mountain-accords-agenda-get-taxpayers-fund-tourism-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Accord\u2019s agenda is to get taxpayers to fund tourism industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Salt Lake Tribune had an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/2307283-155\/op-ed-mountain-accords-agenda-is-to\">Op-ed<\/a> from Patrick Shea who is a Salt Lake City attorney and a former director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Mr Shea&#8217;s points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve inherited a great treasure, in the form of the Central Wasatch.<\/li>\n<li>Our ancestors and the people here before us &#8220;were not motivated solely by financial gain. Instead, particularly for the pioneers, they understood there was an inherent moral obligation for &#8216;justice between generations.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The plan being proposed &#8220;on an unsuspecting public&#8221; is\u00a0for &#8220;certain financial interest, both public and private, to create a transportation system which will facilitate our tourism business.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We the citizens would be obligated to pay $3-$5 billion in our taxes for this.<\/li>\n<li>We run the risk that this plan actually destroys 60% of our water system.<\/li>\n<li>The promoters of Mountain Accord believe that Orrin Hatch will find a way for the Federal Government to fund the entire proposal, &#8220;tunnel and all&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The centerpiece of Mountain Accord &#8212; planning for the future makes sense.\u00a0&#8220;But we as citizens need to make sure that the short-term financial interest of a few don&#8217;t destroy the future for many.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting argument. We hadn&#8217;t heard or thought of the Orrin Hatch play. We&#8217;re not sure it&#8217;s possible but you never know. We would suggest you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/2307283-155\/op-ed-mountain-accords-agenda-is-to\">read the op-ed in its entirety<\/a>\u00a0and see what you think.<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t to the Friend of the Park Rag who told us we needed to read the op-ed<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Salt Lake Tribune had an interesting Op-ed from Patrick Shea who is a Salt Lake City attorney and a former director of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}