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Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
Reported by: AP First posted: 3/15/2006 12:05:28 PM Boaters in Kentucky may not have to pay launching fees at state docks much longer. Lawmakers in the Kentucky House have approved a plan to eliminate the $3 launching fee at many state docks. One lawmaker called the fees a nuisance to boaters and fisherman. The bill now heads to the state senate. From the Kentucky State Parks website: Launch fees for 2006 are $3 per day or boaters can buy an annual pass for $50. Kentucky residents receive a $20 discount. A discount of 50% is offered for additional passes issued to the same licensed boater. Daily fees will be collected through honor boxes installed at the boat ramps. Boaters will take an envelope from the box, fill it out with the current date and other information, enclose the money, and tear off a sticker to be displayed on the dashboard of the towing vehicle. Annual pass information is listed below. Boat Ramp Passes can be used at the following lakes: Barren River Lake, Buckhorn Lake, Dale Hollow Lake, Dewey Lake, Grayson Lake, Green River Lake, Lake Cumberland, Nolin Lake, Paintsville Lake, Rough River Lake, Taylorsville Lake, and Yatesville Lake. http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/03/15/boat.html |
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Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
Garrison Hilliard wrote:
Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees Reported by: AP First posted: 3/15/2006 12:05:28 PM Boaters in Kentucky may not have to pay launching fees at state docks much longer. Lawmakers in the Kentucky House have approved a plan to eliminate the $3 launching fee at many state docks. One lawmaker called the fees a nuisance to boaters and fisherman. It sounds like one of those fees that costs more to enforce, collect and administer than it generates in revenues. |
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Brian Nystrom wrote in
news:ZM%Rf.4011$Sb.1659@trndny08: Garrison Hilliard wrote: Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees Reported by: AP First posted: 3/15/2006 12:05:28 PM Boaters in Kentucky may not have to pay launching fees at state docks much longer. Lawmakers in the Kentucky House have approved a plan to eliminate the $3 launching fee at many state docks. One lawmaker called the fees a nuisance to boaters and fisherman. It sounds like one of those fees that costs more to enforce, collect and administer than it generates in revenues. Either that or state taxes will be going up for everyone to provide funds to maintain a boat ramp for those that want to use it. |
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Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
John, will you please stow that kind of talk until they stop taxing
people without kids, to pay for schools? Or reduce the income, sales, and property taxes of people who don't drive? I mean this cheesy, chintzy business of "I'll pay for this but I don't use that is just so lame." Let the legislators fund everything that contributes to the common good, and let us all pay a share of it. Easy. Over and done with. No bull**** "special use fees" or any of that other "let's license [whatever], to generate revenues" crap. And if they don't charge "special use" fees, then you don't get situations such as that where Marylanders have to pay to visit Pennsylvania State Parks, but Pennsylvanians can visit Maryland State Parks for free. Let the PA gubmint fund what it thinks is important for the common good; if that doesn't include state parks then, at least, they won't be screwing out-of-state visitors whose home states don't screw Pennsylvanians in return. [PS, this was a bogus, hypothetical example, though it does happen with PA's boat-launch permits, even though PAians don't have to pay to launch on MD streams] font face="courier"pre -Richard, His Kanubic Travesty -- ================================================== ==================== Richard Hopley Winston-Salem, NC, USA Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net cell: 301.775.0471 OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu office: 336.713.5077 ================================================== ==================== /pre/font John Fereira wrote: Brian Nystrom wrote in news:ZM%Rf.4011$Sb.1659@trndny08: Garrison Hilliard wrote: Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees Reported by: AP First posted: 3/15/2006 12:05:28 PM Boaters in Kentucky may not have to pay launching fees at state docks much longer. Lawmakers in the Kentucky House have approved a plan to eliminate the $3 launching fee at many state docks. One lawmaker called the fees a nuisance to boaters and fisherman. It sounds like one of those fees that costs more to enforce, collect and administer than it generates in revenues. Either that or state taxes will be going up for everyone to provide funds to maintain a boat ramp for those that want to use it. |
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Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
"Oci-One Kanubi" wrote in message
oups.com... John, will you please stow that kind of talk until they stop taxing people without kids, to pay for schools? Yeah...that'll work. Elderly voters in my school district tried it. They'd come to town & school board meetings and complain about school taxes, and how they didn't think it was fair to them to pay for extracurricular activities. In the same breath, they'd bitch about how "kids just hang around in gangs, all aimless & stuff, with nothin' to do, and then they get in trouble. Something's gotta be done!" |
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Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
Doug Kanter wrote:
"Oci-One Kanubi" wrote in message oups.com... John, will you please stow that kind of talk until they stop taxing people without kids, to pay for schools? Yeah...that'll work. Elderly voters in my school district tried it. They'd come to town & school board meetings and complain about school taxes, and how they didn't think it was fair to them to pay for extracurricular activities. In the same breath, they'd bitch about how "kids just hang around in gangs, all aimless & stuff, with nothin' to do, and then they get in trouble. Something's gotta be done!" As someone who doesn't have or want kids, I see it from a different perspective. While I'm willing to contribute to the common good, why should I have to do so at the same rate as someone who thinks it's cool to pop out 4 or 5 kids? For that matter, why should anyone get a tax DEDUCTION for having kids? Those who consume the most in services should pay the most in taxes. If you don't force people to pay their own way, they don't learn personal responsibility and they don't think about the consequences of their (reproductive) actions. The welfare system taught us that, in spades. The government gives people with hybrid vehicles a tax break. Why shouldn't someone who uses a bicycle instead get an even larger one? Not only do they use zero fossil fuel and create dramatically lower emissions, but the environmental cost of building, maintaining and disposing of their vehicle is several orders of magnitude lower. People who don't own cars at all should get an even bigger break. As much as I like cars, need a car and actually enjoy driving, it's pretty obvious that our priorities are majorly screwed up. |
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Well, that's kinda my point. We all pay school taxes because it is to
our common good to be surrounded by (nominally) educated youngsters than by total illiterates (did I spell that correctly?). Don't you think it is also to the common good that I should be out on the river paddling, rather than mowing down trash cans (WHAT? Those were GIRLS?) on the sidewalks? Jus' wondrin', doncha know? font face="courier"pre -Richard, His Kanubic Travesty -- ================================================== ==================== Richard Hopley Winston-Salem, NC, USA .. rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net .. Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll .. rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu .. OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters ================================================== ==================== /pre/font |
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Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees
"Iron Rangers", the honor system for paying fees without a ranger doing the
collecting, are notoriously ineffective, with compliance figures around 20-25% in a successful spot. I was on a state parks advisory board for six years and regularly dealt with these figures while trying to support state parks maintenance. I usually voted against user fees for simple parking and launching, especially because the parks were short of money because the state legislature was taking the user fees for non-park purposes. Brad "Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message ... Kentucky May Do Away With Boat Launching Fees Reported by: AP First posted: 3/15/2006 12:05:28 PM Boaters in Kentucky may not have to pay launching fees at state docks much longer. Lawmakers in the Kentucky House have approved a plan to eliminate the $3 launching fee at many state docks. One lawmaker called the fees a nuisance to boaters and fisherman. The bill now heads to the state senate. From the Kentucky State Parks website: Launch fees for 2006 are $3 per day or boaters can buy an annual pass for $50. Kentucky residents receive a $20 discount. A discount of 50% is offered for additional passes issued to the same licensed boater. Daily fees will be collected through honor boxes installed at the boat ramps. Boaters will take an envelope from the box, fill it out with the current date and other information, enclose the money, and tear off a sticker to be displayed on the dashboard of the towing vehicle. Annual pass information is listed below. Boat Ramp Passes can be used at the following lakes: Barren River Lake, Buckhorn Lake, Dale Hollow Lake, Dewey Lake, Grayson Lake, Green River Lake, Lake Cumberland, Nolin Lake, Paintsville Lake, Rough River Lake, Taylorsville Lake, and Yatesville Lake. http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/03/15/boat.html |
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........ especially because the parks were short of money because the
state legislature was taking the user fees for non-park purposes. That stands to reason..... |
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