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[Heredoggydoggy]

And yet, we still have it easier here than other places.  When I had to go back east last winter when my mother was dying, I talked to an old hunting buddy who was complaining that he couldn't buy a pack of pellets for his pellet rifle because he didn't have a state Firearms Identification Card.  In Massachusetts--where our war for independence began!  I told him that it was a result of the liberal politicians that they elected year after year that slowly stripped away every Constitutional Right they ever had.

And don't think it isn't happening here!

[Jack Diamond]

So we should be grateful???

[Heredoggydoggy]

So we should be grateful???

No, but we better be vigilant!  Lest we end up like those poor bastiges...

[CAMPMEAT]

All that and we don't even get an apology--but everybody else does! 

Agreed, 100 %.

[billythekidrock]

I am against it but I bought it to stay legal.

I would probably be ok with it if they ticketed those that don't have it. Contrary to all of the reported tickets, I have yet to hear about (or see) anyone on state land in the Winston get tickets. I still see a ton of vehicles in the Capitol State Forest without the pass as well.

Yes, I understand that enforcement is stretched thin, but damn! Enforce the law.

Leos dont care much, they know how wrong these passes are. 

That is exactly what I was told by a WDFW LEO.

[oldcamper]

I have no problem with the pass, but the funds from the pass need to go just to the parks and recreation budgets. Better boat launches, Parks with camping and public docks.

[RB]

 

[Swannytheswan]

http://www.king5.com/news/Problems-with-the-states-most-expensive-restroom-146746445.html

that is where your money is going...

[Wenatcheejay]

Against.

Against the administrators of the program. AKA the Democrats of Washington State. This is another one of their failed programs that are destroying our parks and destroying our wildlife/wild areas. If you look at it as a business they are running it into the ground and receiving huge amounts of money to do it. They should take State Parks that could be turned private or donated to local PUD/Counties willing to take control and do so.

I am saying the State which is broke should give up control of all that it can't properly manage. Instead of being responsible they just keep taxing and making more financially disastrous choices because there are no consequences.

"It's all Bush's fault" so they say.

[Heredoggydoggy]

This State can't even administer the parks that are given to them.  Case in point is Confluence Park here in Wenatchee.  It was built by the Chelan County PUD and turned over to the State Parks to run.  Back during the $5 entry fee fiasco, the Park even wanted to put toll booths at each end of the section of the 11-mile Loop Trail that passed through the Park.  That created such a furor that it was abandoned as the bad idea that it was.

[Sawbuck]

DP is NOT pay to play. Very little of the funding goes to the places/agencies where its use is required. This is a new tax on a small segment of our population (mostly sportsmen and women), with most of the revenues paying for services that all of our citizens use through the general fund. I'm against being singled out for a special tax for specific activities when 100% of that tax is not going directly to funding those activities.

I buy one because I'd be even more pissed if I had to pay a $99 fine.

If the state can't afford to keep the state land open to the public then they should sell it, and collect taxes on it.

If the pass is such a great solution then nobody should be exempt. The parkinglot at the capitol should be full of cars with passes hanging from the window.

[Mudman]

The Elbe rest stop.  Everyone with disc. pass should go visit it.  Get your monies worth.  Anyone who supports this pass really should go to Elbe outhouse. This pass built that and has paid for thousands of pretty signs to threaten us with fines.  Can anyone tell us how it has improved our parks?  Or increased opportunities? 

[oldcamper]

  This is exaclty my point, stop paying for signs and put the money into boat lauches and docks. Stop paying some overpaid parks administrator to hold a title and spend that on campgrounds. If you want people to come to the parks don't charge them more to enter. 

[Dhoey07]

Use taxpayer's money to buy land, and then charge the taxpayer 30 bucks to access it 

Something's wrong here. Very wrong

[youngbuckslayer]

absouletly hate