The issue I "fear" is... If we 'let' the govt decide to bill folks for this and that.... soon they will be billing us for everything... while still getting their (oversized) salaries from the tax pool.
And we know the $$$ will end up in anther 'hand out program'... to buy the votes of whom-ever they think they can.
Govt needs to learn to work WITHIN a budget... and just do without if they cannot afford it. After all, they are supposed to be serving the public, not ripping off the public every chance they get.
I remember during sequestration last summer... we kept hearing of top dogs at the IRS who commute half way across the country on commercial flights; salaries of dept leaders that went UP, elaborate parties catered by Chef Wolfgang Puck, etc, etc, etc... and ALL of this was being paid for by the federal govt...
While the parks were being closed.
There is definitely some wrong thinking here.... And IMO it will only change when the citizens push back (that is, make life uncomfortable for those who would waste tax $$$'s).
We are one of a very few countries in the world where the citizens have the power to push back... yet we just yawn and watch (or not even care) as we get ripped off again and again and again.