OK Herm, I'll bite, you can probably tell I'm a tax and spend liberal anyway evil . The reason I am is pretty simple - all the things I enjoy doing involve environmental quality. No one in the private sector gives a damn about the environment, except for how much money trees, land, and water can make them. It's the job of government to do things that there is no profit in, and protecting the environment is one of them, not to mention raising fish in hatcheries, managing fisheries, marking fish, and enforcing fish and wildlife harvest and environmental quality laws. Also, by the way, it seems to be the job of government to build and maintain the roads and boat launches that get us to the fish, to keep the criminals somewhat locked up so they stay away from our fishing stuff, and to educate people so they don't become criminals. None of this can be done at a profit, at least not at one most of us are willing to pay, and so has to be done by the government at a loss. This loss is funded by taxes. And there is not a saint among us that is going to want to pay any more taxes than necessary. There are a whole lot among us who purposefully pay as little tax as possible, and there are those among us like your freind Timmy that seem to be especially clever about finding more ways for people not to pay taxes. Hell, he even makes his living illegally skimming campaign funds off the top of his little scam. And yet you still vote for his initiatives confused

All you anti-tax guys are doing is reducing the money the state is going to spend on your sport out of the general fund. Fishing licences don't pay even a fraction of what it costs to run the program, but the way things are going they are going to have to support of it. But that's business and only fair, right? Think about that when we are up to $1000 licenses rofl
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The fishing was GREAT! The catching could have used some improvement however........