Re: [Paddlewise] Kayak Registration: the Wallop-Breaux act

From: Nick Schade <nick_at_guillemot-kayaks.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:08:44 -0400
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/

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