>>508108739The thing is, it's not really extra. The amount of you pay to public lands in state income taxes is almost non-existent because of the fee. It's actually incredible how self sustaining state public lands are because of the Pittman Robertson act. The amount you pay in federal taxes is dwarfed by those programs you mentioned, and because there is so little funding is why you occasionally pay a miniscule little ~5 dollar parking fee to use some federal infrastructure, but you can use them for free if you're clever and know where to go, in fact the vast majority of federal land is free to use. Side note - a lot of those fees on federal land are administered by private contractors because of graft from DC. In places where contractors collect fees, very little of the money you pay actually goes to the public trust. It's just plain corruption and has nothing to do with the way public lands are funded and everything to do with legislators giving their buddies kickbacks.
Anyways I don't really have any problem with this when it's administered by the government and not leeches, it makes sense to keep the roads and bathrooms and improved campsites and whatever you use maintained and it's not ever very expensive. The only reason that these licenses exist anyways is because politicians are so resistant to actually funding these intangible benefits to society that they're forced to get creative and justify themselves with revenue, which actually isn't a bad philosophy to have for a public service.
Bringing up entitlement programs is kind of a strawman, I don't support any of those things, I think they're retarded. If we erased all commie niggerbux programs we'd have a surplus, your taxes would go down, and selling public lands wouldn't need to be in the conversation.