On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:11:22 -0500, BAR wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
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 don't see the correlation between smoking and health costs? I quite
smoking when I was 40, after 29 years of two to three, packs a day. I
was sick usually two days a year, never saw a doctor unless a bone was
broken. Then after I quit smoking I fell apart. Back, neck, foot, and
many other things.

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.

If they can penalize half of the boaters now it will be easier to
penalize all of the boaters later. Once the camel gets its nose under
the tent its body soon follows.

You were lucky as a smoker. After two bouts of pneumonia and a diagnosis of
emphysema, I finally got smart enough to quit. Haven't had pneumonia since,
and the emphysema hasn't gotten any worse. Of course, the cholesterol and
blood sugar are both higher, but there has to be some bad with the good.

Golf, if walking, is good for cholesterol and blood sugar problems, BTW.

Another BTW - I've a brother coming up from NC and another flying in from
Seattle this evening. We're planning five days of mid-November golf, and I
think we lucked out in the weather department!