What’s next, an inner tube or snowshoe fee?

In this great state, with our obesity and sedentary related health issues, it seems that creating fees on aerobic activities like paddling and walking on state-owned property don’t serve our citizens.

Those fees would create one more barrier to healthy choices.

We already pay fees to enter state parks.

How do you enforce hikers trekking in from New Hampshire?

How do the tourists with kayaks and canoes pay their way? Spend part of their vacation in our town halls? Many will simply become scofflaws. Do they get to slide while residents face season-long scrutiny by new revenuers or overworked game wardens?

Our fiscal house is not in order and this is no solution. It is only a problem for residents, with more fees to be paid for previously non-fee activities on this land of ours.

A dear friend in Mexico opined recently, “What’s next, a tax on the inner tubers on the Swift River?”

Deeds done in the night often need to be put right.

Like the auto exhaust testing was boycotted years ago, is a fee boycott on walking and.paddling the only recourse to these sneaky, cowardly legislative actions?

We are the people.

I am confident, as the Legislature most assuredly is, that its members are not truly representing us at this time.

Mike Woodworth, Auburn