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This proposal is even worse then is being stated here. What is the matching money that comes from the feds being spent on now. My guess is it is being used to collect the data required for a state to have its own license. There is no way in hell that at $3 or $4 per person and no federal money RI will be able to pay for its own data collection. A state could in theory fail to collect the data in an ongoing year but the next year the state will have to figure out how to meet the data requirement OR let the feds take over the licensing for that state.
Yes, some state have no charge for their license but those states use their budgets to collect the data and deliver much less angler services than states that have a reasonable fee driving income into their system.
My point to the legislature from RI is who is gonna pay the bill in two years. The answer to that question should be part of the discussion around his proposal.
The more I hear about what other states are doing the more grateful I am for the way we handled this issue in MA. .... It may be the one thing our state government has done right in twenty years.
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