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That is a thoroughly debatable proposition, it seems to me. And even
if you accept it in principle it doesn't answer the question why this
particular item from which the taxpayers in general derive no benefit
should not be paid for solely by those who do benefit.



Let's try another point.....

Yachtsmen, a very affluent group of citizens, pay an inordinate amount of
the taxes used to gather the chart data, operate the chart bureaucracy and
spit out the products. Actually I think they have MORE rights to the
charts than I do, living more simply and paying FAR less taxes than
they....

If you're looking for class warfare, it won't be me. If it weren't for
billionaires, millionaires and other very-well-off people....we'd all
starve down here at the bottom of the food chain. I fully appreciate it
every time some filthy-rich person calls me to fix their electronic piano
in that big mansion on Kiawah Island. I really don't envy them because
that morning while they were slaving away trying to double their money, I
was sitting on my lazy ass in this chair typing with friends who choose to
be as lazy as I am.

Most of these people pay more taxes in a week than money I spend in a year!
I don't really think they are any happier than I am, looking at them close
up, however. I've yet to figure that out.....