On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Shawn Baker wrote: > > http://www.wallop-breaux.org/ > > Since a lot of the funding is through boat fuel taxes, maybe we involve > the motorboat lobby, and say, "Hey, this is your money; your fund. We > don't buy boat gas, we don't pay into the fund. They're trying to > register kayaks and canoes so they can spend your money on our safety". > Would this argument work, or will they try to find a way to rewrite > Wallop-Breaux to tax us some other way?! Philosophically I am not against paying for services rendered, however being a cheap bastard I don't like the idea of the cost of my kayaking gear increasing. I think the likely out come of talking about the Wallop-Breaux act would be a tax being added to all paddling gear. Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 11:09:01 PDT
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