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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS
next >>Economic planning should not be based on the assumption that natural resources are cheap, are available in unlimited supplies, or are all renewable. Too many of our resources have been lost or degraded under these assumptions. Future economic policies should be founded on the conservation of our natural resources and the protection of the human and natural environment. [Res. 19, 1991]
Funds no longer needed for defense purposes should instead be applied to bring our great outdoors back to world class standards. [Res. 32, 1991] Moreover, the military should be frugal with the taxpayers' money, spend less on non-essential items, and avoid waste. [Res. 12, 1995]
A major public works program, directed at rebuilding our aging infrastructure and cleaning up and restoring our environment, ought to be instituted which will provide new jobs to offset those lost through short-term transitions (arising out of changes in agriculture, forestry and other industries) owing to environmental policy. [Res. 8, 1994]
The North American Free Trade Agreement should not be approved until it is clear that environmental laws will not thereby be weakened (such as the Marine Mammal Protection Act and laws governing export of pesticides and raw logs). [Res. 18, 1993]
Provisions of U.S. federal tax policy that allow owners of second homes to deduct their interest payments from their tax bills should be eliminated. This tax loophole subsidizes the destruction of open space and is environmentally destructive and unfair. [Res. 20, 1993]
Progress by tribal governments in developing their economic welfare, along with programs of environmental stewardship, should not be undermined through ill-considered proposals to reduce federal payments to them, nor force waivers of claims of sovereign immunity in civil actions in federal courts (see riders by Sen. Gorton to the 1998 Interior Appropriations bill). If enacted, such changes could make tribes more susceptible to desperate economic solutions (such as serving as repositories for toxic waste and garbage and to over-exploit their resources). The rights of tribes to self-governance and parity with states should not be weakened. [Res. 19, 1997]
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