Want to think about your comment for a minute? Know any states that aren't running a deficit? Unless their charter says they cannot, and there are still ways around it (unfunded liabilities). Human nature is always to spend more when it isn't your money.
Because I only have 0.16
Those greedy government employees wanting pay raises. The nerve! Don't get me started on all those greedy suppliers wanting more for the goods and services they provide to the government. Why can't the government work just like the private market where the price of everything stays the same year after year?
No I didn't google or research. Its like the guys who work in the trade industry always make more dollars per hour when they are building a school or working on a government building> If you were building a 20,000 SQFT commercial office building I bet if your local government built it the cost would be greater per sqft or on average per sqft across the country.
Sounds like a price hike is required to even things out
In terms of resource use days per person, I've never understood why a annual fishing license for a resident wasn't $700.
Fishing licenses are not kept artificially low to support the fisherman that utilizes fly shops, hotels and guides. They are kept low to support the guy that goes once or twice a year with his kids to closest fishing pond he can find and the 60 yr old retiree that fishes 50 days a year and keeps a full limit each time. Both of these groups are covered by my in-laws.
I don't understand the alternative. Stop doing all fisheries management and native fish restoration because fishing licenses don't cover it themselves?
