"Capt Lou" wrote in message
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No, but education does.

Is a fee any different than a tax? License fees simply help balance the
budgets
on the backs of boaters.

That's true when license fees are simply dumped into a general revenue fund
without regard to how they are apportioned. However, in many jurisdictions,
license fees are used as a method of self funding for the cost of government
services relating to the scope of activity that the particular type license
covers.