Special use for purpose only
I strongly agree that special use fees should be used for the associated purpose only. Given that first condition, I have no problem with $10 fees on kayaks, canoes. These folks, I included, use the lake and require the occasional support service.
To those who support a general tax mechanism to support such activities, NO WAY! These mechanisms just put more money in the hands of the politicians to waste on "good" works. NO state that puts sales taxes or income taxes in place ever reaches the promised Nirvana of relief from other taxes or healthy funding of public services. They use the money to fund other stuff and their cronies and when money gets tight again they cut public services first to put pressure on the public to allow more taxes, which mostly go to waste and corruption. It's a well used cycle in politics to pry money from the people. The only way to come out ahead is to NOT get on the general tax train to begin with.
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