Resident tags for Colorado are a bargain. Before they had to absorb Parks CDOW was run as close to a entrepreneurial enterprise as a state agency could be run.
One of the biggest problems this state has are the number of consumers who leach off the enormous public system putting pressure on limited resources that only sportsmen financially support. They won't significantly increase fees on anything due to the wringing and gnashing of teeth that come from all corners.
This isn't a welfare program, but one of the very few government models that actually work when funded properly and administered by people other than bureaucrats.
