07-08-2023, 07:31 PM
Every time we turn around the state or DWR comes up with new ways to ding us for a few more bucks. Enough to make ya quit turning around.
Bad enough for boaters, but I still have to clarify whether or not my inflated hunkarubber is also subject to the new fees and stickers. I suspect it is. And the DMV still can't figure out how to properly squeeze their money out of us float tubers. Last year my "automated" invoice billed me for a "personal watercraft"...a motorized jet ski. Only after a lengthy "discussion" with one of our "snivel servants"...with pictures of my rig and copies of past registrations...was I able to get my assessment reduced from totally ridiculous to only mildly insane. As a float tuber I have to pay the equivalent of about 25 to 30% of the value of my trolling motor every year...just to float on our pristine waters. If boaters had to pay an equivalent percentage...for some of those megahorsepower engines on their craft...there would be a revolting revolt.
But, then again, we keep getting so much more value and service every year from those who charge us that we should be properly grateful. Gotta wonder if the folks who run DMV and the DWR are in cahoots with those who operate Pineview and Strawberry.
CRASH! Just fell off my soapbox. What the hell is a soapbox, anyway? I should be old enough to remember. But then again, I am old enough to forget...a lot.
Bad enough for boaters, but I still have to clarify whether or not my inflated hunkarubber is also subject to the new fees and stickers. I suspect it is. And the DMV still can't figure out how to properly squeeze their money out of us float tubers. Last year my "automated" invoice billed me for a "personal watercraft"...a motorized jet ski. Only after a lengthy "discussion" with one of our "snivel servants"...with pictures of my rig and copies of past registrations...was I able to get my assessment reduced from totally ridiculous to only mildly insane. As a float tuber I have to pay the equivalent of about 25 to 30% of the value of my trolling motor every year...just to float on our pristine waters. If boaters had to pay an equivalent percentage...for some of those megahorsepower engines on their craft...there would be a revolting revolt.
But, then again, we keep getting so much more value and service every year from those who charge us that we should be properly grateful. Gotta wonder if the folks who run DMV and the DWR are in cahoots with those who operate Pineview and Strawberry.
CRASH! Just fell off my soapbox. What the hell is a soapbox, anyway? I should be old enough to remember. But then again, I am old enough to forget...a lot.