Kiss it goodbye....

[Hooper]

Just found out too that I have to obtain a $135 Transportation Workers Identification Card, TWIC, (or something like that) because I hold a captains license and run charters in the summer.

Guess they want to make sure terrorists are not going undercover as charterboat captains, while they plot the demise of the US.....

A Tax by any other name is still the same

[Backbeach Jake]

I keep going back and forth on this issue,
today I'm anti.
I can think of no instance where paying the government for permission to do something has gotten me more permission. Quite the contrary. Oversand Permits are my glaring example. The more we've paid over the years, the less access we've gotten. Before Race Point had permits we had total access 365 days a year. Dunes,shore and trails. Now what do we have? 4/15-11/15 minus part of June, all of July, and part of August. For 150 bucks. A license or a permit is used soley to raise the funds to deny you access to what you have already. Without the fees from permits, the government doesn't have the funds to remove the users. In short, by paying, we fund our own demise as sportsmen.
When the government does something for your own good, you can bet the farm that it ain't going to be good.

[tattoobob]

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

I keep going back and forth on this issue,
today I'm anti.
I can think of no instance where paying the government for permission to do something has gotten me more permission. Quite the contrary. Oversand Permits are my glaring example. The more we've paid over the years, the less access we've gotten. Before Race Point had permits we had total access 365 days a year. Dunes,shore and trails. Now what do we have? 4/15-11/15 minus part of June, all of July, and part of August. For 150 bucks. A license or a permit is used soley to raise the funds to deny you access to what you have already. Without the fees from permits, the government doesn't have the funds to remove the users. In short, by paying, we fund our own demise as sportsmen.
When the government does something for your own good, you can bet the farm that it ain't going to be good.

This has got to be the best thing I have read in a long time
Fred you hit the nail square on the head

Sad but true

[Raider Ronnie]

[QUOTE=Hooper;560145]Just found out too that I have to obtain a $135 Transportation Workers Identification Card, TWIC, (or something like that) because I hold a captains license and run charters in the summer.

Hooper,
You got some more info on that and where you found out?

[Raven]

your not running a ferry service from shore to shore....

what's next.... a plug license ??

because your transporting plugs
across the water back and forth

and they may have been built by
terrorist plug builder's

come to think of it
there are some nefarious lookin plug guys
on this site.... hmmmm

i better call the homeland security office...
just in case...

[macojoe]

as a few said, "Can't beat them join them"

Yep so with everything the gov says we should just lay down and take it in the A**

And that is just why we are getting all these rules!!

Everyone complains but no one does anything about it!

I use to go to all the meetings and you know how many people be there for rec. fishing??
A handful thats it!! we have 1 million fisherman and 25 show at a meeting?

And thats why we will be taxed to do something we love!! And this is the beginning!!
Because if you don't get up and fight now, you will contunie to get taxed more, less access, less fish, ect ect...
There are more complaining here on this board, then what show up at meetings!!

We ALL need to take a stand!!! ALL!! Don't leave it to the few!
If you just showed up at the meetings and not said anything would be better then doing nothing!!

[striperman36]

So how do we organize to make sure the funds are directed in each state to the fishers and the fisheries?
FL has done a phenomenal job. The whole process of getting out and back in Sebastian Inlet is a breeze. I even have filet stations and wash downs hoses right there.