Thank you Gov Desantis

Great Outdoors Initiative

Seems like a great idea

 

I’m buying a half price lifetime sportsman license for myself and a bunch of state parks annual passes as gifts.

For those that haven’t seen it, it’s half off the gold sportsman’s licenses (the combo fresh/salt/hunting licenses, including lifetime ones) and half off individual and family state parks annual passes.

 

Will buy for son and myself but wondering where the lost $$ will come from to fund agencies and would that money be better spent elsewhere

 

Colorado does something similar for state parks & it is nice you can just pay it as part of your tag fee & no additional stickers are required. & suck it fla. It’s 60% off!

Colorado Parks and Wildlife

 

I'd guess increased sales will outpace discounts even considering meager administrative costs of issuance

 

I think it’s a combination of the state has huge surpluses to start with right now, and it will get a bunch of people who otherwise wouldn’t have paid for state park entrance or bought hunting/fishing licenses in the first place to buy them.

The discounted lifetime sportsman licenses are a great deal if you’re someone relatively young who would buy hunting and fishing licenses every year for the rest of your life without it, but I suspect most of the people who the discounted price will entice in are people who otherwise aren’t buying these kinds of licenses and passes.

 

Agreed. Plus there's the tax revenue from the (even minimal) utilization of any of these services.

 

Hunting and Fishing licenses are granted by FWC which has constitutional authority and is not in the cabinet or (theoretically) directly subject to Gov’s authority. Of course, IRL, the Gov has his ways to exert authority.

 

Dynamite idea. This could be healthy for the people in the state who can’t get adequate health care because the jackass won’t expand Medicaid.

 

It's due to the budget surplus thanks to the Biden bill that all of the Republicans voted against

 

This board has its priorities straight!

“Check out this idea!”

“Whoa cowboy, all I need to know is was it DeSantis or Biden??”

 

So it was it Bush or Obama!!!!!!

 

He is trying to piss me off. Where the heck was he when I was under 65 and needed a hunting and fishing license?

 

So the thread title is “Thank you Gov DeSantis.”

Whoever started it.