Boat gas tax is not a boat gas refund. It is a refund for virtually any non road use purchase of gasoline in this state. Farmers, homeowners with lawnmowers, etc all are eligible for the refund.
Keep the registration money, earmark a portion of it, raise it $2 per boat, whatever....but to suggest eliminating the refund for boats will end up being a logistical nightmare for the state, trying to figure out who is circumventing the law and saying their lawn tractor used 430 gallons during June, July, & August.
Leave that alone...messing with it would hurt more folks than it would help, especially those not involved with boating.
Just my humble opinion,.
APS : "A speed limit works for Lake George because the results can be quantified, and boaters know it. Officers only have to write a few tickets a year to keep a semblance of order." What enforcement there is on that lake is made simple by having more Patrol boats on the lake than we have here. Having lived an hour south of Lake George and having boated on the lake, I can tell you that there is no comparison between Lake George and Lake Winnipesaukee, in my opinion. Lake George is a very narrow lake, with no real expanse like the broads. It is more like riding on an area that is about twice as wide as Merideth Bay or Alton Bay, with islands in the middle of it. There is was then and still is plenty of speed on Lake George especially near the village end of the lake, where it is pretty much wide open. And Lake George is a state park, and unless something changed in the last few years, you pay a special Park fee to boat on the lake each year. I really do hate to see the comparisons between the two lakes, it's like trying to compare budgets and government between Laconia and Alton...apples and oranges as they say.