I think respectable arguments can and have been be made both ways on this one but I do think there's one error in the logic "we pay our taxes, that's all we should have to pay." You pay taxes, I pay taxes, and maybe everyone else contributing to this thread pays taxes, but as I recall the statistics from the late, great debate over George W's tax cut, something like 50% of the citizens of this country pay little or no taxes and that's not even counting the millions of illegal immigrants who obviously pay no taxes. It appears that the people who pay taxes, at least in any significant amount, are actually a minority in this country today. So at least the proposed fees will cause those people to pay something if they use the lands in question, which seems to me a good thing.