I think what Smoke is saying is the government isn't forcing you to buy a license. If you don't want to ,you don't have to.However,if you want to go hunting, which in CO is a privilege,not a right, then they make you buy that license.Like someone has already posted,it isn't anything except and other fee and they can't call it a tax .
It's like the road and bridge fee on CO vehicle registration. If they called them a tax,voters would have had to vote on it. Knowing that wouldn't pass,they called them a fee. CPW is doing the same thing with the blessing of the stare legislator.
Yeah, I understand all that... I just wish they’d call it what it is. If I went to my local forest service office to buy my fire wood cutting permits, only to be told that I must also buy a camping permit... well, I’d probably raise hell about it.
Whom ever administers the allocation of Pitman Robertson funds should fix this “loop hole” so that the monies are actually distributed as intended. Now all the states are basically stuck with jumping on the band wagon, or get left behind... and we have to pay for it out of our pocket.
