In all, the state budget proposal includes more than $208 million in proposed tax and fee hikes. Many license fees have not increased in decades.

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LANSING — Ten dollars more to bag a deer. An extra $13 to shoot pheasant. And $84 more to license a 24-foot motorboat. Those are among the more than $208 million in proposed higher taxes and fees ...