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"...My suggestion -- make annual boat registration fees of $1 per motor HP. The increase in revenue as a result of such a fee structure could be used to support the MP as well as natural resource issues."
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It seems support for your [
T.H.E.Binz'] intelligent suggestion has respondents lined up none deep.
This is a fee. (New Hampshire doesn't introduce taxes).
However, it's a
progressive fee that addresses a real seasonal need -- particularly on weekends.
For a teacher or retiree looking for a summer MP job, there should be financial
incentive. If a prospective MP officer could rent a cottage near/on the lake for the season and get paid enough, we could "gain" a Marine Patrol officer for the season.
Additionally, why are my two
motorless sailboats assessed a $30 annual fee, ($60 total) when most of our problems on the lake are horsepower-driven? This is a
fair application of boating "fees"?
A dollar a horsepower could help rid us of the anarchy that some boaters have brought to this lake.
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