Back when Gary Locke was Gov, everyone pissed and moaned about having to pay TAXES to support our State Parks and boat ramps and Wildlife agencies and in a fit of populist conservativism, the state changed to a user fee system.

Now WA's same pikers that wanted the user fees implemented in the first place are bitching about having to chip in measly $20 a year to keep things running even though they are the ones using the services.

These things called parks and boat ramps and the cops that bust poachers and hillbillies using sticks of dynamite to 'fish' for salmon don't pay for themselves.

You cheapskates wanted user fees, you fuggin' got 'em. Now STFU and pay up.

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PS WA state parks are probably the worst, most poorly funded, in any state I've been in. They are, essentially, rotting remnants of New Deal era CCC projects that WA residents are too cheap to maintain, expand or build upon. We are still using a parks system intended for a WA population level of 1935.