SB 436 State Boat Tax $ Diversion

[DockRat]

Boat U.S. Government Affairs
September 11, 2013

Dear California Boat U.S. Member,

We need your help today! The California State Legislature is about to take boating tax dollars and use them for non-boating purposes. Please act now to ask your state representatives to protect boater tax dollars and vote “No” on Senate Bill 436.

SB 436 would open up the boater-financed state Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund (HWRF) for a non-boating purpose, specifically the prevention of damage to streets and property within cities caused by beach erosion and flooding. It also directs $1,000,000 for streets and property located along Hueneme Beach. While the prevention of such damage is important, boats are not the source of the damage and using boating dollars to support non-boating programs is a dangerous precedent.

Boat registration fees, fuel taxes and other proceeds from recreational boating activities fund the HWRF, which helps pay for docks, vessel sewage pumpouts and boat ramps throughout the state. Many of these state dollars are matched by federal funds, making these dedicated boater taxes that much more valuable. We must protect the integrity and effectiveness of the HWRF.

You can easily contact your state Senators and Assemble Representatives using the BoatU.S. email system by clicking here.

Ask them to protect boater tax dollars and vote “NO” on SB 436.

Thanks for being a BoatU.S. member!

Margaret Podlich
President, BoatU.S.
GovtAffairs@BoatUS.com
703-461-2878 x8363

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[HawgZWylde]

Boat U.S. Government Affairs
September 11, 2013

Dear California Boat U.S. Member,

We need your help today! The California State Legislature is about to take boating tax dollars and use them for non-boating purposes. Please act now to ask your state representatives to protect boater tax dollars and vote “No” on Senate Bill 436.

SB 436 would open up the boater-financed state Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund (HWRF) for a non-boating purpose, specifically the prevention of damage to streets and property within cities caused by beach erosion and flooding. It also directs $1,000,000 for streets and property located along Hueneme Beach. While the prevention of such damage is important, boats are not the source of the damage and using boating dollars to support non-boating programs is a dangerous precedent.

Boat registration fees, fuel taxes and other proceeds from recreational boating activities fund the HWRF, which helps pay for docks, vessel sewage pumpouts and boat ramps throughout the state. Many of these state dollars are matched by federal funds, making these dedicated boater taxes that much more valuable. We must protect the integrity and effectiveness of the HWRF.

You can easily contact your state Senators and Assemble Representatives using the BoatU.S. email system by clicking here.

Ask them to protect boater tax dollars and vote “NO” on SB 436.

Thanks for being a BoatU.S. member!

Margaret Podlich
President, BoatU.S.
GovtAffairs@BoatUS.com
703-461-2878 x8363

For an update on this and other government affairs topics please visit BoatUS.com/gov

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. If you prefer not to receive BoatU.S. Government Affairs Alert emails go to http://www.boatus.com/gov/unsub.asp or use the link at the bottom of this message.

Man, it just never ends with these kooks. Run out of money here, steal it from there. Then both sides get to spend money trying to defeat or implement it. And we, the taxpayer, lose either way...

[DockRat]

As Ca circles the drain we just sit back and watch.

Here is one example of big money waste;


$47,000 a year to keep a person in a cage in California.
California Spending More On Prisons Than Colleges, Report Says;

Since 1980, higher education spending has decreased by 13 percent in inflation adjusted dollars, whereas spending on California's prisons and associated correctional programs has skyrocketed by 436 percent. The state now shells out more money from its general fund for the prison system than the higher education system. (When combined with K-12 education, the state's overall education spending dwarfs its prison expenditures.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/california-prisons-colleges_n_1863101.html

It costs an average $18,022 per year to house an inmate in a Florida prison.

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/Quickfacts.html

Hey Hawgz, read that above Fl. link.
No AC, No Cable TV, grow there own food.

This state is so out of control on spending :Rolls Eyes: