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Right Thinking: Let users fund improvements to facilities, services Andrew C. Spiropoulos If we are to deal with our serious policy challenges, political leaders must devise approaches to governing that can persuade both sides of an ideologically polarized populace that we are implementing policies because we can prove they will work and not because they scratch some ideological itch. One promising approach is to improve public services by significantly investing in expanding and retooling functions and internalizing costs of improvements so that users – and not taxpayers generally – pay for better, but pricier, service. Here’s an example. For decades, those responsible for managing Oklahoma’s state parks refused to charge fees for admission or parking at almost all our facilities – free parks, how nice. But maintaining parks costs money, and, in a state with a boom-bust economy, in hard times, there’s little support for spending on park maintenance. So, not surprisin

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