Ideally user fees and use taxes like the sales tax would be the most fair. Unfortunately we give tax breaks and use taxes in unusual ways so the user fees would have to be regulated so the fees go where they belong. What would happen though would be something like this: I pay my user fee to supply revenue for the park and those who don't wish to work claim poverty and get in free. So my fee has to go up to cover those who "can't afford it"..Then once there was enough money in the fund for the park Ron Simms would come along and assess the park it's share of his boondoggle....maybe the Sound Transit mess...then all of a sudden the park's money is wasted and gone so the State threatens to close the park unless we raise property taxes of some other tax...

A fishing related example is the money in our fishing license fees that is under law supposed to go to Puget Sound salmon enhancement is being misappropriated at Soos Creek. Another example is how WDFW is assessed a percentage of other departments costs .That is just like taxing a state agency a user fee to use the other department's resources but it really goes to such things as paying lawsuit awards for DSHS....They get sued for incpmpetence and neglegence all the time and lose...so all the agencies get punished. WDFW has a hiring freeze right now so qualified enforcement officers waiting in the wings cannot be hired.

So no matter which party's idea the fees and taxes are people don't like to pay them because they do not get the value they expect and deserve.