"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Not at all. As I stated many posts ago, a fuel usage surcharge tax
for boats burning more than X gallons an hour at cruise would be
sufficient.
Let's say diesel/gas is $3.00 at the dock...you burn more than, say,
40 gallons an hour at cruise, you pay $6.00 or $9.00 a gallon.
I could live with that as neither of my boats burn anything close to
that. But there are others that would complain because offshore
fishing is what they do for recreation and they probably have a lot
invested in it.



Let them complain.
And you can just complain when something you like is taxed to excess.
The Govenator's new universal health plan for children in California is
to be paid for by tobacco taxes. What a crock. If it is a good thing
to have cheap universal insurance, then let everyone pay for it.

Paying for long term programs with tobacco taxes is a Catch 22. Smoking
is declining and additional taxes will only serve to hasten the decline
as will the decline of revenues generated by the tax.

If everyone in the US quit smoking tomorrow, new taxes would spring up
somewhere else to make up the tax deficit. Who's next?

Eisboch

The benefit of the tabacco tax is it will encourage smokers to quit. We
all pay for the increased health cost related to smoking.

I am sure there are some who would prefer that all rec. boating be
outlawed as it is waste of limited resources. I guess we can all buy
sailboats w/o a iron gennie.


There are a bunch of studies which disprove the increased lifetime health
costs with smokers. The taxes that are collected exceed societies cost to
take care of the person and on average they die sooner. Something like 80%
of a persons health costs are in the last 2 years of life. And the smoker
dies before all the small **** adds up. Raise the health insurance for a
smoker. Actually they do lots of times. There should be freedom of choice.
Where is a Twinkie Tax? A fatburger tax? All these are also unhealthy.
Maybe we need 1984 or the government that would generate "Escape from LA"
scenarios.