http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/2216103.html
There is really no logical reason for anyone to be against optional license renewal payments for park funding. If this message was more clearly stated or communicated, maybe there wouldn’t be so much upheaval about “voluntary fees.”
Is it ethical for journalists to suggest a fee to enter state parks? Leave it up to a referendum (votes of the Californians) to vote for a mandatory fee put on their registration when they buy a car or not. Or just do like in all the Canadian parks and charge an arm and a leg to get into a park.
Objective: "unfair to apply the same label to the state parks system now. Since 2001 the state park department has undergone repeated budget reductions... Now have a $1 billion backlog in deferred maintenance."
The social responsibility of the professionals is to report how the closures will affect the workers, the budget, and of course the park goers. The parks want to close for a few days a month to save money. So ethically, the PR professionals for these institutions might realize their employers just can't raise the money through automatic fees on your car purchases, but an optional box for a donation fee could be implemented. Like a donor card on your driver's license.
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