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Originally Posted by roachboy
ace you haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about.
you don't know anything about "the boating industry" in massachusetts.
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This is true, but my points have much broader application.
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do you have any idea how much it costs to get a slip for a season, if you can do it?
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No.
Do you know the reason why it is difficult and costly? Without any direct knowledge I bet the problem is related to government interference.
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do you have any idea how much gas costs if you get it dockside?
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No. But, I argue that the "rich" alter behavior based on costs. Some argue the opposite point or simply pretend that increasing costs and taxes on the "rich" have no consequences.
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do you have any idea how much a boat costs?
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Yes.
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who do you think is doing the boating?
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In general or in Massachusetts? Where I live, boating can be affordable, and even people considered poor have boats (as opposed to yachts like Kerry's, some even use them for a purpose other than pure luxury, i.e. like for fishing). Or in your world is there only one kind of "boating"?
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do you seriously think people from this social class are affected by a tax on the already quite extortionate cost of owning and keeping a boat?
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Yes.
Some "rich" people got that way because they put effort into saving a half a million here and there.
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if you want to talk about the fishing industry, the "boating tax" is the least of their problems.
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Not the least, but they do have other problems other than taxes.
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but you'd have to know what the fuck you're talking about to get to that.
and you don't.
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Only if you say so.
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i'm done wasting my time with you.
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So he says for the umpteenth time!
Roach, be a man of your word or interact on a higher level. The choice is yours. I regularly interact with you because I am flawed and I know what my problem is, do you know what your flaw is?