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Licensing alternative
I’m probably like a lot of you folks. I would like the effects of
licensing, knowing that the burdened vessel converging with me and sort of wavering around in his course actually does know which way to turn, not having my tax dollars spent looking for bozo’s, etc. I would also like the freedom of making my own decisions about my competence. It would also be nice not to have a system come to the waters I sail where there is an incentive for uniforms who were told to go out and "show that the system is working" but don’t actually know how to come alongside or use fenders waste a portion of my afternoon looking for little pieces of paper. Everything about the way NJ has implemented the system strikes me as a good example of how government always finds a way to inconvenience people and restrict their freedoms without actually doing anything constructive about the problem. I don’t know what’s going on in CT but it’s probably another reason to stay north of Cape Cod. It will probably come to Maine too but it will probably come last. Hopefully, it will be after I’m no longer too concerned about it. If it does come become an issue, it isn’t going to do any good to spout some of the nonsense in the mega thread I started below. We aren’t the NRA with a constitutional amendment backing us up. Some kind of alternative will have to be presented. Here’s just an idea. Establish a fee (can’t be a tax because taxes can’t be raised or added anymore) of, maybe, 1% on the sale of every new and used boat. If the buyer can produce a certificate from a recognized course such as the power squadron, or maybe a no claim history from insurance of a vessel of similar size, the seller can submit a copy of that instead of the fee. If someone just wants the boat and is willing to pay the fee, then it goes to safe boating education and printing more of those silly hand outs. I’m not advocating doing this either but, if licensing talk starts up this way, I want some alternative to present. -- Roger Long |
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