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Originally Posted by Airwaves
"...If you want to look at some of the boating stats many of the rescues performed by the Marine Patrol, especially early in the season, are of vessels that do not pay the registration fee! Think about it...!"
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Why, those scoff-laws!!! 
The Marine Patrol should be cracking down on people who don't pay the Registration Fee!
Ohhhhhh... You meant the paddlers, rowers, windsurfers, sailboats under 12' in length, plus inflatable craft who aren't yet affected by taxation—
I get it now.
Yup: New eight-dollar fees will go a long way in helping the MPs enforce stickers on paddlecraft—and to pay the retirements of those State employees hired to collect the then-new $23 fees placed on sailboats back in the 80s).
Why not a Luxury Tax on canoes assessed at over $150?
Say, hiring more government workers will reduce unemployment!