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Vic Parks Camping Fee Proposal 28-Oct-2013 At 3:16:34 PM gfdonc

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This is getting a little out of whack isn't it?

I have no issue with paying a fee to support the incremental costs of my visit to a camping area. However I do object to paying taxes to maintain our parks and then having a user-pays arrangement which covers more than just the expendables.

The incremental costs at, say Stapylton, are the cost of toilet paper plus an occasional pumping out. I'd be guessing, but maybe $3?

Let's look at the cost justification in a different light. A house can be found relatively cheaply in the Grampians at present, you can pick something up for, oh, let's say $300,000.

Assuming you were fully expensing the cost at 5% mortgage rates at present, that'll cost you $15k in interest a year. Add, say, 4k for rates and power (?), the house will cost you around $365 a week, or about $52 a night. For a whole house. Light, power, cooking, and a flushing toilet, and rubbish collection.

And you can camp in the backyard for free ;-)