"Steve Wolf" wrote in message
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: What do you pay taxes for? In Ohio, our State Parks have no visitor fees.
: We support them with out taxes. User fees work well for
: infrastructure-related items such as airports or campgrounds. To pay to
go
: look at trees speaks to all that is wrong in the world.
:
: Steve

funny, but apples and oranges Ohio and Colorado....

MOST of Colorado is national forest, most of it is free. State parks entail
maintained trails, restroom facilities, etc. that are likely used in
majority by tourists, so taxing residents for this would serve to do nothing
but steal from the locals. You could explore Colorado for free for the rest
of your life. Some of the more expensive to maintain areas (and some of the
more fragile) charge a fee.....