Just when you thought there couldn’t be any new stupidity invented by the Trump administration.
Donald Trump's main policy initiative involves building a pointless wall across miles of empty desert. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that one local chapter of his administration has proposed doing the same at the annual arts and culture gathering known as Burning Man.
The Nevada branch of the Bureau of Land Management, which administers the Black Rock desert where Burning Man has been held since 1990, released in March a wildly unusual proposal calling for major changes to the event's permit.
These include making the nonprofit Burning Man Project pay for a private security force, as well as constructing a 10-mile, 19,000,000-pound concrete barrier around the weeklong event.
The 372-page BLM proposal, if implemented, "would forever negatively change the fabric of the Burning Man event, if not outright kill it," the Burning Man Project wrote in response last week. It estimated BLM's requirements would cost a total of $20 million every year, raising the price of tickets — which average around $400 — by $286 apiece.
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