Benefits Of Privatizing National Parks

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After reading the two articles, I support privatizing national parks because it would result in better management and wellbeing for the parks. The proponent of privatizing national parks notes that other resources once regulated as monopolies, such as telephone services, now ran as private corporations have become more efficient and profitable.
The author opposed to privatizing management of national parks is in favor of the government continuing to run national parks. Yet governmental management has not shown any great results. The article is full of vague statements and holds a lot of opinions. Other than the author stating that in the attempt to privatizing the park, the result would be less public access at a greater cost. The opposing

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